Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

To isolate the Baltic Sea provinces of German background from Prussia’s influence Russian was made the language of bureaucracy and education. Thanks for that the state gave the schools operating by the Orthodox churches quite a lot money which ...

Lihula was appointed in 1211 by Riga archbishop Albert to be the centre of Estonia's bishopric. Instead of ancient Estonians stronghold that was on the hill a new stone stronghold was built in 1238. The owners of the stronghold were Danes, Swedes, Germa...

The von Ungern-Sternbergs did not like the evasion of Orthodoxy at all and when building the church started in 1889 their chance for a little fine revenge came! The land they gave the church, and they were obliged to give it, was deep in the dark ...