Having been a teacher of king Gustav II Adolf and being his councilor Johan Skyte was the man who made the king want to open a university in Tartu. Skyte can be described as a man before his time - he expressed a hope that Estonians and Latvians too wou...
The statue was erected in 1976 on the Lossi street in viljandi. Johann Köler (8 March 1826 – 22 April 1899) was a leader of the Estonian national awakening and a painter. He is considered as the first professional painter of the emerging nation. He dist...
The earliest mentioning of the Kaagjärve manor is from the year 1541. The manor got
its current name after the owners von Kawers. In 1880s 2.5 kilometers to the west a
producing center was established: a brewery, a flour mill, a saw mill, a wool f...