Hietaniemi cemetery

This guide to Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki centers on one modest headstone among the generals, presidents, and the tomb of the unknown soldier: that of Eino Leino, the closest thing Finland had to a national poet, who published something like seventy books yet was never paid enough to live on. It follows his failed pleas for scholarships, a writer's pension in 1918 that never covered his debts, and his 1921 petition to renounce his Finnish citizenship altogether. Newspapers quoted him constantly; almost nobody paid him properly.