Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Peter the 1st planned to build a giant military port of Rogerwiek here. The plan envisaged that the mole would offer shelter for the entire vast navy of Russia. Construction of the military port started in 1716. Despite the efforts of thousands of convi...

Kärkna monastery was established in the first quarter of the 13th century by the first bishop of Tartu, Herman I who, having lost his sight, spent his old age there. He, and allegedly a Danish princess as well, is buried there. An army from Pskov destro...

To isolate the Baltic Sea provinces of German background from Prussia’s influence Russian was made the language of bureaucracy and education. Thanks for that the state gave the schools operating by the Orthodox churches quite a lot money which ...