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Born March 29, 1929 • Tallinn • Estonia
Died March 14, 2006 (aged 76) • Tallinn • Estonia
Title / Office president (1992-2001), Estonia • foreign minister (1990-1992), Estonia
Subjects Of Study Finno-Ugric
Ilves, Toomas Hendrik
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
president of Estonia
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Kennan, George F.
George F. Kennan
American diplomat and historian
François Guizot
François Guizot
French politician and historian
Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
British statesman
Edwin O. Reischauer
American historian and diplomat
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
Spanish writer and diplomat
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Diego Barros Arana
Chilean historian
Motley
John Lothrop Motley
American diplomat and writer
Albertino Mussato
Italian writer and statesman
Pats, 1938
Konstantin Päts
president of Estonia
Johan Laidoner
Estonian patriot
F. Reinhold Kreutzwald
Estonian physician, folklorist, and poet
Jaan Tõnisson
Estonian statesman
Raul H. Castro
American politician
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakovlev
Soviet economist and official
Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
Leonard Woodcock
American labor leader and diplomat