Famous life · 11.08.1946
Koidula comes home to Metsakalmistu
Lydia Koidula, the poet of Estonia's national awakening, died of breast cancer in 1886 in Kronstadt, the Russian naval town where she had lived for 13 years with her husband, the army doctor Eduard Michelson. She was buried there, far from the country she had written about all her life. Her last poem was addressed to Estonia. Sixty years later her remains were brought to Tallinn. On 11 August 1946, exactly sixty years after her death, she was laid to rest here in the Forest Cemetery. The coffins of her husband and of the small son she had lost stayed behind in the family plot in Kronstadt.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
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Lydia Koidula, ärkamisaja luuletaja, suri 1886. aastal rinnavähki Kroonlinnas, Venemaa sõjasadamalinnas, kus ta oli elanud 13 aastat koos abikaasa, sõjaväearst Eduard Michelsoniga. Ta maeti sinna, kaugele maast, millest ta kogu elu oli kirjutanud. Tema viimane luuletus oli pöördumine Eestimaa poole. Kuuskümmend aastat hiljem toodi tema põrm Tallinna. 11. augustil 1946, täpselt kuuskümmend aastat pärast surma, sängitati ta siia Metsakalmistule. Tema abikaasa ja noorelt surnud lapse kirstud jäid aga perekonna hauaplatsile Kroonlinna kalmistul.