Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The 1888 finished New Anatomical Theatre was the biggest architectural project the Tartu University undertook in the 19th century - the Old Anatomical Theatre had become too small to accommodate all the university's doctors. The current House of the Sup...

Nikolai Pirogov (1810--1881), having studied and taught in Tartu University, was among the firsts in Europe to use ether for narcosis. While serving as a doctor in Crimean War he started to use plaster castings which significantly lessened the number of...