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Front: Lydia Koidula (1843-1886), first Estonian female poet

Lydia Koidula was born Lydia Emilia Florentine Jannsen in Vändra, southwest of Estonia. He father owned the first national Estonian language newspaper in 1864. Lydia wrote for her father's paper and also published her own work. She died in 1886 after a long illness. Her last poem was Enne surma-Eestimaale!

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Front: Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940), Estonian writer

Tammsaare was born Anton Hansen in Järvamaa, son of a poor farmer. He studied law at the University of Tartu. He started to write in 1918. His five-volume novel True and Justice, published between 1926 and 1933, is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature.

Back: Early rural log construction farm, view of Vargamae