The Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) is a small bird of the pheasant family who mainly lives in farmland – in fields as well in pasturelands.

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published March 12th, 2013

The combination of the blue, black and white colours of the Estonian national flag is one of the most important and most beloved national symbols.

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published February 27th, 2013

By the Chinese zodiac calendar the Year of the Snake will start on February 10. Although many people associate the Snake with dangers and venoms, it is still regarded as a symbol of happiness.

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published February 15th, 2013

A series of new definitive stamps in the uniform Post Horn design began on 10 January 2008.

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published January 4th, 2013

Santa’s skis run better this year than ever before. It is not because of the snow, as here and there isn’t any of it at all.

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published December 5th, 2012

Lepo Mikko (1911–1978), a graduate of the Pallas Art School in 1939, was a confirmed modernist whose vigorous creative stimulus was the atmosphere of spiritual liberation and change of the 1950s and 60s.

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published November 29th, 2012

Scouting first arrived in Estonia in 1912 when the first Boy Scout unit launched activity at the Pärnu Boys’ Gymnasium (high school). As a result Estonia is among the first half a hundred countries where scouting, set up on the initiative of Baden-Powell in Great Britain in 1907, established its foothold.

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published November 21st, 2012

The subject of this joint stamp issue of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is railway bridges. The most outstanding of the 440 railway bridges built in the first period of Estonian independence are reproduced on the stamp, on the first day cover and the cancellation.

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published October 22nd, 2012

On the 24 September 1872 at Illuste, Lääne County † Early July 1941 in Tallinn Head of State 15 December 1925 to 9 December 1927; 19 February to 18 July 1932 In 1917-1919 member of the Provisional National Council, the Diet, of the Constituent Assembly of 1919-1920 and of the 2nd to 5th Riigikogu (Parliament); in 1918 Prosecutor of the Republic of Estonia.

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published October 2nd, 2012

The lighthouse on the higher western bank of Käsmu Bay (earlier Kasperwieck) is one of few wooden lighthouses that have come down to our days. The Käsmu Lighthouse, built on the initiative of local ship owners and the maritime school, began working in 1892.

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published September 19th, 2012

According to the Chinese zodiac calendar the New Year falls on January 23 when the Year of the Dragon begins. The dragon, the only animal of the Chinese zodiac year that is not real, is a creature of special significance for Chinese people.

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published September 11th, 2012