Summer 1869 in Tartu, the Governorate of Livland, the southern part of present-day Estonia. More than 800 men were assembled in St. Mary’s Church, filling the nave. Higher up, near the organ, Johann Voldemar Jannsen was standing. By that time he had founded and edited two newspapers: first the Perno Postimees (The Perno Courier) and a little later, the Eesti Postimees (The Estonian Courier) and as an Estonian had addressed the Estonians in the Estonian language…
Estonian song celebrations – common yet unique
