The Dome Cathedral
Description:
The crusades to Livonia were carried out with the blessing of the Pope and the first conquerors to Tallinn arrived with church servants and monks on the mission of baptizing the local pagan population, that is, new lands were conquered "by both sword and cross." It was the tomb of the Estonian nobility and knighthood and on the inner walls of the cathedral there are 107 stamped epitaphs. Preserved tombstones and sarcophagi, made by outstanding sculptors and architects of their time. In the cathedral are buried such outstanding people as Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen, who died from wounds received at Austerlitz, Samuel Greig, commander-in-chief of the Russian fleet and Adam Johann von Krusenstern, the first naval commander, who made a circumnavigation under the flag of the Russian Empire.