The First Half of the 19th Century

Monument to F.R. Kreutzwald in Võru

Keywords

abolition of serfdom in 1816/1819

surnames to Estonians

a rural community as a new local self-governance unit for peasantry as a social class :

community elders, courts, budgets, etc.

modern methods of agriculture applied by the nobles

first farmlands sold to peasants by the nobles in Viljandi county

the beginning of the Estonian literature: Peterson, Faehlman, Kreutzwald

Kalevipoeg, the national epic

The New Livonian Peasant Regulations in 1849/1856 - to buy and inherit plots of land

religious transition into the Russian Orthodox Church in the hope of aquiring land in Russia by about 65,000 peasants in Estonia