The African Governor and Guardian of Estonia's Capital City
The African Governor and Guardian of Estonia's Capital City Left: Portrait of Gannibal from Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine, Volume 8 (1888); Right: Engraving of Reval (Tallinn) in 1867 by Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen (Source: Wikipedia Commons ) Pictured below is the house where the African prince and Russian nobleman Abraham Gannibal (c. 1696-1781) lived as the chief commandant of what is now Estonia's largest city, Tallinn. Revel (Tallinn's old name) and its fortress were established at the end of the 10th century, then taken by the Danes in the early 13th century. Later, Reval was ruled by the Germans and Swedes. Reval was then conquered by Russian emperor Peter the Great in 1710. For 10 years - from 1742 to 1752 - Gannibal served as the de-facto governor of that historic city. House of the military commander of Reval (now Tallinn) Photo by Wikipedia user Elin Galtung Lihaug The photo above was taken in 2003. As these photos show, the house received a compl...