New Masters of the Baltic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Esthonia and Latvia, across the Gulf to the south (they were then the Baltic provinces of Esthonia, Livonia and Courland) were even less known. West ern tourists rarely got so far from home as Reval and Riga, although these ancient Hansa towns had been looking out on the gray Baltic for seven hundred years. The manor-house life of the Esthonian and Livonian countryside might, so far as most Westerners were concerned, have been buried in the eighteenth century from which it had, in many ways, scarcely departed. These Balt barons and baronesses, although they read the books and reviews of Berlin, London and Paris, and spent their winters in Petrograd; old Reval itself - town and country both - were, indeed, a bit of the eighteenth century, forgotten here behind the peninsula which shut off the eastern Baltic into almost an inland lake.

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