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Georgi-Rene Maksimovski
Georgi-Rene Maksimovski (born 22 July 1966) is the former and initial First Lady of Estonia, First Gentleman of Estonia, married to President of Estonia, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid since 2011. Born into a Setos, Seto family, he is the son of Nektari and Valve Maksimovski. He also has one sibling. From 1984–1991, he studied at Tallinn University of Technology. Beginning in 1993, Maksimovski worked at the State Infocommunication Foundation where he was employed for 16 years until 2009. In 2004, Maksimovski began to date Kaljulaid and the couple had their first son in 2005, having their second just four years later. They were officially married in 2011. Outside the Presidential Palace (Tallinn), Presidential Palace, Maksimovski owns an apartment in Lasnamäe. Little is known about his daily life, which leads some in the Estonian media to speculate that he is part of the domestic intelligence service. Honours Foreign honours * : ** Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadriorg Palace
Kadriorg Palace ( et, Kadrioru loss, german: Schloss Katharinental) is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Both the Estonian and the German name for the palace means "Catherine's valley". It was built in 1718–1725 to Nicola Michetti's designs by Gaetano Chiaveri and Mikhail Zemtsov. The palace currently houses the Kadriorg Art Museum, a branch of the Art Museum of Estonia, displaying foreign art from the 16th to 20th centuries. The building of the Kumu branch of the museum, showing Estonian art from the 18th century onwards is located nearby in the Kadriorg Park. Construction After the successful 1710 siege of Reval (Tallinn) during the Great Northern War, Czar Peter the Great of Russia bought a small manor house at Laksberg (Lasnamäe) for his wife Catherine. Plans for a larger palace in the area were developed soon afterwards and construction of a new palace, in what is now Kadriorg, was started on 25 July 1718. The con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
