Location: Barclay de Tolly mausoleumi park, Jõgeveste küla, Helme vald, Valgamaa
The Arch of Triumph in Valga County? No – it is the classicist mausoleum (architect Apollon Shtshedrin) that houses the sarcophaguses in which lie the embalmed bodies of Prince Michael Andrea Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818) and his wife (who died in 1828)....
Location: Raekoja plats 18, Tartu linn, Tartumaa, 51004
18 Raekoja Square. late 18th century building. Duchess Barclay bought the house in 1819 after the death of her husband, Barclay de Tolly. The longitudinal wall of the building toward the river was built on the basis of the old town wall, while the other...
Location: Raja küla, Kasepää vald, Jõgevamaa, 49509
The Old Believers’ congregation in Rajaküla has its roots in the 18th century. The first
Old Believers escaping from czar’s violent persecutions occurred in Estonia a century
before. Rajaküla chapel was destroyed in the II World War. The bell-towe...