Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Gustav II Adolf, the famous king-general of the Thirty Years’ War that fell in the battle of Lützen signed the Foundation Decree of Academia Dorpatensis, the University of Tartu on the 30th of June 1632. The monument for him that the Soviet pow...

Standing for the importance of mother tongued education Jakob Hurt (1839-1907) was in constant opposition with another national leader, the fiery Carl Robert Jakobson who found Hurt's approach too restrained. Hurt withdraw from politics and concentrated...

1851 born Hermann was a man of many interests. The author of the first Estonian opera and entcyclopedia he also argued that Estonians originate from the ancint Sumerians. Too many interests though left him no time to deepen to anything plus draine...