The von Ungern-Sternbergs did not like the evasion of Orthodoxy at all and when
building the church started in 1889 their chance for a little fine revenge came! The land
they gave the church, and they were obliged to give it, was deep in the dark ...
A legend says a girl is bricked in to the castle. it was a must that the enemy didn’t know
her name or the protecting power will fade. But the enemy forced an old woman to tell it
– it was Anne and the castle was destroyed. Swedes blew the 14th ce...
The Christian invaders did not go inventing bicycle but took what seemed working
already – the fort of Estonians’. According to the archeological finds the place was
habited already 2000 years ago. Having changed masters the Livonian Order itself ...
Built in 1340 the Jesuits turned it to their Southern Estonian head-quarters in the Middle Ages. When destroyed in 1558 in the next clash between the Livonian Order and the Russians its collapsed walls provided stones for building the new castle, the en...
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