The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end o
Leaders of the Supreme Council of Lithuania on 11 March 1990
Baltic Way participants between Cēsis and Valmiera
The Barricades in Riga in 1991
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea
Singing Revolution
…Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War. The Soviet Union annexed the Baltics around 1940, following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (a non-aggression…
Bronze Age stone-cist graves at Jõelähtme
Lübeck Law Codex for Tallinn
Academia Gustaviana, now the University of Tartu, was founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), author of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (by Johann Köler, 1864)