Famous life · 01.03.1940
Tammsaare's study in Kadriorg
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, author of the novel Truth and Justice, spent his last years in a flat at Koidula 12a in Kadriorg. In January 1939 he lay in hospital for a long time with stomach trouble and came home weak. On the afternoon of 1 March 1940 he was found dead in his study. The death certificate said heart attack. His funeral on 5 March became a day of national mourning. The sculptor Herman Halliste took his death mask. His wife Käthe made it her life's task to keep their home as it was, and on his hundredth birthday in 1978 the flat opened as a memorial museum.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
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Romaani „Tõde ja õigus” autor Anton Hansen Tammsaare elas viimased aastad Kadriorus Koidula 12a korteris. 1939. aasta jaanuaris oli ta maoprobleemidega kaua haiglas ja tuli koju nõrgana. 1. märtsi 1940 pärastlõunal leiti Tammsaare oma kabinetist surnuna. Surmatunnistuse järgi suri ta südamerabandusse. Tema matusepäev 5. märtsil kujunes üldrahvalikuks leinapäevaks. Surimaski võttis skulptor Herman Halliste. Abikaasa Käthe võttis südameasjaks hoida kodu alles sellisena, nagu see oli, ning kirjaniku 100. sünniaastapäeval 1978. aastal avati korteris memoriaalmuuseum.