The March of the Björneborg Regiment
# The March of the Björneborg Regiment

The March of the Björneborg Regiment is a gouache painting by Albert Edelfelt completed in 1892.

The painting depicts marching Finnish soldiers in wintry landscape during the Finnish War fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 1808 to 1809. As a result of the war, Finland was separated from the Swedish kingdom and annexed as an autonomous grand duchy of the Russian empire.

The painting depicts the marching drummer boys of the Pori brigade, historically known as Björneborgs läns infanteriregemente [sv]. The subject of the painting is the poem of the same name included in the second part of J. L. Runeberg's The Tales of Ensign Stål, which was inspired by a piece of music known as Björneborgarnas marsch.

There are two versions of the painting, the original one from 1892 is owned by the Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation [sv] and found at the Serlachius Museum Gösta [fi] in Mänttä, Finland, the second one hangs at the Ateneum in Helsinki, Finland.

