Step Into History
Walk Tallinn in 1900
AI rebuilds Reval (Tallinn) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Reval under the Tsar, 1900
This is Reval at the height of the Russian imperial era: newly crowned on Toompea by the onion domes of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, a busy Baltic port sending steamers to St. Petersburg and a city where Estonian national feeling gathers in mass song. The walk moves from the harbour into the medieval streets, climbs Toompea and follows promenades and parks where citizens, dockworkers and park strollers share the same summer light.
35 scenes — 23 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Tallinn as it stood in 1900 (“Tallinn”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Reval Bay Approach
- 2. Fat Margaret Tower
- ↳ Tower Gunroom · interior
- 3. Great Coastal Gate
- 4. Harbour Quay and Customs
- ↳ Customs Examination Hall · interior
- 5. Pikk Street
- 6. Great Guild Hall
- ↳ Merchants' Great Hall · interior
- 7. Town Hall Square
- ↳ Council Chamber · interior
- 8. St. Nicholas Square
- ↳ St. Nicholas Nave · interior
- 9. Kiek in de Kök
- ↳ Commandant's Chamber · interior
- 10. Pikk Jalg Stair
- 11. Toompea Castle Exterior
- 12. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
- ↳ Main Iconostasis · interior
- 13. St. Mary's Cathedral
- 14. Kohtuotsa Terrace
- 15. Viru Gate
- 16. Baltic Station
- ↳ Railway Waiting Hall · interior
- 17. Kalamaja Quarters
- 18. Kopli Docks
- ↳ Slipway Engineworks · interior
- 19. Kalamaja Fish Market
- ↳ Fish Market Hall · interior
- 20. Kadriorg Park Gate
- 21. Kadriorg Palace
- ↳ Grand State Hall · interior
- 22. Song Grounds
- ↳ Choir Rehearsal Hall · interior
- 23. Pirita Beach