Ahja manor house

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Keywords

a new generation of political leaders: Jaan Tõnissson and Konstantin Päts;

Estonians start to win elections to the town council: the first Estonian Mayor in Valga - Johannes Märtson;

the revolution in 1905, arsons to destroy manors, punishment troops;

the first political parties established;

in 1905 - women allowed to attend university lectures, not to enrol as students; first Estonian ladies go to university;

secondary education provided in Estonian;

professional cultural institutions and societies born, „The Young Estonia" Society;

effects of WW I;

ab. 100,000 men recruited as soldiers to the Russian Armed Forces;

10,000 people perished in the war fields;

but: Estonian professional military officers of the Russian Armed Forces would soon become the leaders of the War for Freedom;