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Famous lives in Estonia
86 famous lives in estonia, each tied to the real place where it happened or is told, county by county. See them on the map →
Harju County
- Koidula comes home to Metsakalmistu 1946
- Päts's farm at Kloostrimetsa 1940
- Jaan Tõnisson's last known address 1940
- Kristjan Raud's house in Nõmme 1929
- Köler's fresco in Charles's Church 1879
- Peter the Great's little house in Kadriorg 1718
- Gannibal, Pushkin's great-grandfather, at Karjaküla 1733
- Tammsaare's study in Kadriorg 1940
- Amandus Adamson's studio in Paldiski 1899
- Eduard Vilde's flat in the castellan's house 1927
- Paul Keres Street in Nõmme 1976
- Georg Ots Street beside the Estonia 1977
- Jaan Kross at the corner of four streets 2022
- Lennart Meri remembered in Viimsi church 2014
- Ernesaks's family village of Perila 1908
- Kotzebue's grave in Kose churchyard 1846
- Pikakose, the musicians' summer house 1928
- Naissaar, the island of Bernhard Schmidt 1879
- Fifty families sail from Tallinn for Brazil 1925
- Two swans for the Kadriorg ponds 1928
- The anthrax cow that burned for three days at Riisipere 1927
- The Tivoli elephant loses its temper 1936
- Filming the ice-seine fishermen in Tiskre Bay 1940
Hiiumaa
Ida-Viru County
Järva County
Jõgeva County
Lääne County
Lääne-Viru County
- Young Arvo Pärt cycles to the loudspeaker 1947
- Piibe, Karl Ernst von Baer's birthplace 1792
- Krusenstern's last voyage ends at Kiltsi 1846
- Anton Hansen's school days at Väike-Maarja 1896
- Georg Lurich, the strong boy of Väike-Maarja 1876
- Wrangel's last voyage ends at Viru-Jaagupi 1870
- Jõepere, where Kreutzwald was born a serf 1803
- H. G. Wells hides out at Kallijärve 1934
- Ao manor, where Faehlmann was born 1798
- Midsummer in the Roma camp on the Rakvere town pasture 1928
Pärnu County
Põlva County
Rapla County
Saaremaa
- Bellingshausen's birthplace at Lahetaguse 1778
- Juhan Smuul's Koguva and his wandering statue 1922
- Ruhnu's seal hunters and their three-day rule 1910
- A bride for the bachelor stag of Abruka 1929
- The 'jumpers' of Piila 1920
- A bear walks across the ice to Saaremaa 1940
- The Kuressaare medium who took dictation from Goethe 1934
Tartu County
- Juhan Liiv's home farm at Rupsi 1894
- Solzhenitsyn's secret winters near Vasula 1965
- Kristjan Jaak Peterson on Toome Hill 1819
- Middendorff's grave at Hellenurme 1894
- Pirogov, the surgeon of Tartu 1836
- Torila, where Eduard Tubin began 1905
- Collecting for the National Museum at Kirepi 1912
- A bird table by the cathedral ruins on Toome Hill 1922
Valga County
Viljandi County
- Mart Saar's forest home at Hüpassaare 1921
- Vardja, where Laidoner was born 1884
- Kitzberg's Mulgi home at Pöögle 1871
- Lubjassaare, birthplace of Johann Köler 1826
- The Kapp composers' home in Suure-Jaani
- Swimming the length of Lake Viljandi 1927
- Viljandi is given a bear 1938
- On skates around Lake Võrtsjärv 1933
Võru County
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