Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian writer, film director, and statesman. He was the country's foreign minister from 1990 to 1992 and President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.
Meri in 1999
Enn Säde and Lennart Meri in 2002
Meri in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1998, 350 years after the Peace of Westphalia
Meri's grave at Forest Cemetery in Tallinn.
Konstantin Päts was an Estonian statesman and the country's president from 1938 to 1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia, and during
Lennart Meri
…2nd President of Estonia In office 6 October 1992 – 8 October 2001 Prime Minister Mart Laar Andres Tarand Tiit Vähi Mart Siimann Mart Laar Preceded by Konstantin Päts (Last President before Soviet occupation in 1940) Heinrich Mark (Last head of state in exile) Arnold Rüütel Chairman of the Supreme Council of the…
Päts with his family (from left): brother Nikolai, sister Marianna, father Jakob, brother Voldemar, mother Olga, brother Peeter, and Konstantin Päts (far right).
Ensign officer Konstantin Päts in 1917
Konstantin Päts was one of the authors of the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918.