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
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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 ...
The chapel in Saha used to be one of the oldest ecclesiastical centres of Rävala Maakond (Rävala Shire). Originally, Saha Church was made of wood, it was burnt down around 1223.
Four cult stones with small hollows dating from the 1st millennium BC, l...
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