Priorities of Estonian History
Fabricius, a
Catholic Pole who favored Polish rule and rendered a Polish perspective of
history.
Russian history during the imperial period also shows such an ideological
influence. Juri Fiodorovitsch Samanarin, for example, strove to explain to the
Russians its mission and identity as the ruling people, not merely a minority,
1 Johann Renner, "Liivimaa ajalugu 1556-1561" (Tallinn: Olion, 2006), 2-13.
and to show to the native peoples that they were second rate citizens. Jefgraf
Vassilievitsch Tscheshikhin also displayed such partiality when he wrote,
"There can be no place in Russia . . . for any patriotism other than Russian
patriotism."2 Their and other histories raised the place of Russians to that of
victor and liberator, contrary to the truth that this was not always the case.
This rewriting of history occurred again during the Soviet period, when de
facto control of Estonia was in Russia's hands.
When Estonia became an independent nation in 1918 (1920 from the
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