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>Finland, The Country of White Lilies is a non-fiction book authored by the Russian priest and social-activist Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov (1866–1925). Petrov dedicated a non-fiction book to Finland and Johan Vilhelm Snellman, written while he was living in Serbia after the October Revolution. The work describes the country as a role model and a living example for other states such as Russia.
>The book was translated from Bulgarian into Turkish, with the first edition being published in Istanbul in 1928. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk liked the book so much that he ordered it to be included in the curriculum of educational institutions, including military schools – as a guide to the "renewal of life".[3]
>Later, the book was published and republished many times in different languages under different titles, including 14 editions in Bulgarian and at least 16 editions in Turkish, and in the preface to one of the editions it was said that this was the most widely read book in modern Turkish in Turkey.[3]
>In Turkey, the prefaces to some editions of the book stated that its value lay not in what it told about Finland, but in the fact that, thanks to it, "we can see what we are and what we can become." In 1928, it was written about the book in Turkey that "it was as if the two-million Finnish people had conducted this experiment for us to make our path easier and to show us, their big brother, that we can continue the path we are on, confidently and without doubt. This is not only an example, but also proof that we will win".[6]