| | Estonica : History : National awakening |
 | | This was to be separate from the existing German and Russian ones. |
 | | In 1857, the founder of the first Estonian-language newspaper Perno Postimees, Johann Voldemar Jannsen (1819—1890), replaced the term ‘country people’ with the word ‘Estonians’. |
 | | Patriotic intellectuals encouraged Estonians to participate in public life, determined the legal and cultural requirements of the emerging nation, and organised the extensive sending of petitions to the Russian authorities (1864, 1881). |
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