Mõigu Cemetery
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Mõigu cemetery was a large Baltic German cemetery, located in the Tallinn suburb of Mõigu in Estonia. It served as the primary burial ground for the usually wealthy and noble citizens of the Toompea p
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Moscow plague riot of 1771
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The Plague Riot was a riot in Moscow in 1771 between 15 and 17 September, caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Mõigu Cemetery
…scale across the entire Russian empire was to avoid further outbreaks of highly contagious diseases, especially the black plague which had led to the Plague Riot in Moscow in 1771. Against this background the cemetery at Mõigu was founded in 1774 on the outskirts of Tallinn on an area that was owned and administered…
The murder of Archbishop Ambrosius. Engraving by Charles Michel Geoffroy, 1845