The eastern Finnic republics of Komi, Mari El, Mordovia and Udmurtia in north-eastern Russia are homelands for people related to the Estonians and Finns. They refer to themselves as the 'Finno-Ugrian World' and form a virtual cultural region within Russia. Estonia maintains cultural and political contacts with these kindred peoples and their capitals Syktyvkar, Yoshkar-Ola, Saransk and Izhevsk. Yet this is the first contemporary art exhibition about the four republics shown at the Art Museum of Estonia.

Photo: Stanislav Stepaško