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Konstantin Päts 🇪🇪

Konstantin Päts (Known as "President Päts")
First President of Estonia (1938–1940), Prime Minister of the Provisional Government (1918)
Born Feb 23, 1874 🇪🇪 Tahkuranna, Pärnu County, Estonia
Passed Away Jan 18, 1956 Burashevo Psychiatric Hospital, Kalinin, USSR, Estonia
Lifespan 81 years old
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Founding statesman who proclaimed the independence of Estonia on February 24, 1918, led the provisional government through the War of Independence, and served as the first President of the Republic of Estonia.

Biographical Record

Konstantin Päts was born in Tahkuranna on February 23, 1874. A brilliant lawyer who founded the progressive Tallinn newspaper Teataja in 1901, Päts was sentenced to death in absentia by tsarist authorities following the 1905 Revolution, living in Swiss and Finnish exile.

On February 24, 1918, as head of the Salvation Committee, Päts read the historic Estonian Declaration of Independence in Tallinn. Heading the provisional government, he mobilized the young republic to victory against Soviet Russia in the 1918–1920 War of Independence. Arrested and deported by the NKVD in 1940, he perished in Soviet psychiatric confinement in 1956; his remains were reburied in Tallinn in 1990.

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Final Resting Place

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Metsakalmistu (Forest Cemetery)
Tallinn, Estonia
GPS: 59.4710, 24.8690
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