Abstract
The images of Finland in the prose of Isaac Babel and Osip Mandelstam are similar in many aspects. Both writers shared the view of this country as a kind of substitute for the Promised Land. Both authors used the image of the open sky over an empty space as a topos for the Finnish space they associated with the romantic picture of the biblical desert. Such “biblical” association influenced not only the description of Finland but also the portrayals of Finns in Isaac Babel’s and Osip Mandelstam’s prose. The article argues that their strong emotional attachment to Finland was typical for many Russian Jews of their social class and generation.
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