About the Mahtra War
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About the Mahtra War In the year 1858, a wave of peasantry disorders rolled over Northern Estonia. They were caused by the new law on peasantry that did not unburden the corvee. The peasants of Mahtra Estate were so brave that they not only did not let the Russian soldiers’ punitive troops beat them and make them work again, but even called the peasants of the neighbourhood for help. The gathered forces of 700-800 men, armed with poles and pitchforks, made the soldiers escape… The Mahtra War became the symbol of the Estonians’ love of freedom in these days already. It grew even more significant in the period of National Awakening and especially when the novel “The Mahtra War” by Eduard Vilde came out. |
| About the Mahtra War |
Mahtra Peasantry Museum, Muuseumi 1, 79401 Juuru, Rapla county, (+372) 48 44 199,