Eesti Vabariigi aastapäeva

Photo of Karin at the Ceremony

Today is Estonia’s Independence Day and today we celebrate one hundred and five years since declaring independence. Independence from Russia and the German overlords wasn’t achieved on this day in 1918, but the declaration of independence known as the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia (Estonian: Manifest Eestimaa rahvastele) was first read in the town of Pärnu on the 23rd of February, then printed and read in Tallinn on the 24th of February 1918.

From the Manifes...