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27-575: First mentioned in the Liber Census Daniae in 1241, the manor's thick and irregular walls suggest that the building was originally a medieval vassal stronghold. The first known owner of the manor was a vassal of the Danish King Gerhardus de Kouwe (Gerhard from Kau) who served as the mayor of Kau in 1319. However, the fate of this family remains unknown as historical records indicate that Gerhardus might have participated in

54-547: A professor of botany. Eschscholtz received a medical degree in 1815. On the recommendation of Ledebour, Eschscholtz served as surgeon and naturalist on the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik under the command of Otto von Kotzebue . From 1815 to 1818 the expedition circumnavigated the globe for the purposes of seeking a Northwest Passage and exploring the lands bordering the Pacific Ocean. In addition to Eschscholtz,

81-545: A three-volume account of the expedition, including reports from Chamisso and Eschscholtz. Their natural history collections were described in the journals Horae physicae Berolinenses (1820), the Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg (1826) and Linnaea (between 1826 and 1836). Eschscholtz's botanical collections from California were published under the title Descriptiones plantarum novae Californiae, adjectis florum exoticorum analysibus (1826). This

108-592: A voyage of three years, the expedition returned home in July 1826. In 1830, Kotzebue and Eschscholtz published a report of their voyage titled A new voyage round the world in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26 . Eschscholtz published illustrated descriptions of the new fauna he encountered in Zoologischer Atlas , 1829-1833; and provided further information in System der Akalephen , 1829. He also continued to work at

135-536: Is a private property and there is a luxurious hotel, restaurant and art center. In 2010 started with a big renovation that was ended in 2012. 59°5′48.99″N 25°14′24.41″E  /  59.0969417°N 25.2401139°E  / 59.0969417; 25.2401139 Otto von Kotzebue Otto von Kotzebue (30 December 1787 - 15 February 1846) was a Baltic German naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy . He commanded two naval expeditions into

162-600: The Marianas , Philippines , New Caledonia and the Hawaiian Islands , reaching Kronstadt on July 10, 1826. When he returned, Kotzebue was promoted to command of the fleet squadron at Kronshtadt, but he left the service in 1830 because of failing health. Kotzebue spent the last years of his life at his Triigi Manor near Kose. He died in Reval in 1846. Both of Kotzebue's narratives: A Voyage of Discovery into

189-602: The Pacific for the purposes of exploration and scientific investigation. The first expedition explored Oceania and the western coast of North America and passed through the Bering Strait in search of a passage across the Arctic Ocean . His second voyage was intended as a military resupply mission to Kamchatka but again included significant explorations of the west coast of North America and Oceania. Kotzebue

216-741: The Aleutian Islands, California, and Hawaii. At each stop Eschscholtz collected specimens and recorded his observations of the local flora and fauna. Eschscholtz and Chamisso worked well together and became good friends. When Kotzebue became ill in 1817, they cut short a planned return to the Arctic and headed home, stopping again in Hawaii and then in the Philippines before ending their voyage at St. Petersburg in August 1818. Kotzebue published

243-813: The Dog Island ( Pukapuka ); Romanzoff ( Tikei ); Spiridoff; the Palliser Islands discovered by Cook; Rurick's chain ( Arutua ); and Krusenstern ( Tikahau ). He reached Penrhyn atoll on May 1 and was greeted by the natives who came out in canoes. After leaving Polynesia, Kotzebue came upon the Radak and Ralik chains of the Marshall Islands in Micronesia. Kotzebue then headed north for the Kamchatka Peninsula where he anchored at

270-537: The Pacific Ocean, he proceeded north. Severe illness compelled him to return to Europe, and he reached the Neva River in Russia on August 3, 1818, bringing home a large collection of previously unknown plants and new ethnological information. In 1823 Kotzebue, now a captain, was entrusted with the command of an expedition of two ships of war, the main object of which was to take reinforcements to Kamchatka and patrol

297-645: The South Sea and Bering’s Straits for the Purpose of exploring a North-East Passage, undertaken in the Years 1815–1818 (3 vols. 1821), and A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823–1826 (1830), have been translated into English. Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 – 7 May 1831) was a Baltic German physician, naturalist , and entomologist . He

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324-692: The Tuamotu Archipelago on the way to Tahiti. The expedition reached Matavai Bay, Tahiti, on March 14. Kotzebue met various members of the London Missionary Society before leaving the island on March 24. Kotzebue reached Petropavlovsk in July 1824. That same year he visited Mission Santa Clara and noted the conditions of the monjerío . Many positions along the coast were rectified, the Navigator islands visited, and several discoveries made. The expedition returned by

351-644: The University of Dorpat, serving as professor of medicine and zoology and director of the zoological museum. Of the many insects he collected, about 100 butterflies and twenty beetles were species new to science. Eschscholtz described some of them before his death but many were described by others, including Swedish naturalist Carl Gustaf Mannerheim , French entomologist Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean , and Russian entomologist Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim . Eschscholtz died on 7 May 1831 in Dorpat, Estonia at

378-471: The age of 37. His friend and colleague, Adelbert von Chamisso, named the California poppy ( Eschscholzia californica ) in his honor. Kotzebue named an island in the Marshall Islands as Eschscholtz Atoll. This was renamed in 1946 to Bikini Atoll . Kotzebue also named a small bay east of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska after Eschscholtz . Most of his collections were left to the University of Dorpat Museum and

405-574: The artist Louis Choris , Kotzebue set out from Kronstadt on July 30, 1815 to find a passage across the Arctic Ocean and explore the less-known parts of Oceania . Proceeding via Cape Horn , he visited the Chilean coast and arrived at Easter Island on March 29, 1816. From there he sailed west and reached the Tuamotu Archipelago around April 16 where he sighted several islands, some of which he named: Doubtful, so named because he thought it might be

432-437: The early 19th century Kau was the home to a world-famous explorer, Otto von Kotzebue . In 1906 it became a by-manor of nearby Paunküla, owned by the von Hagemeister family. Triigi manor remained in their possession until its expropriation by the newly independent Republic of Estonia in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, Kau was owned by a War of Independence hero, the head of Estonian Military Intelligence Colonel Karl Laurits. In 1975,

459-631: The failed 1343 uprising of St. George’s Night and lost the ownership of Manor during the suppression of the Estonians in the aftermath. However, Kau has been home to warriors, artists, explorers and statesmen ever since. A renowned warlord Heinrich Dücker owned Kau during the Livonian War in the 1560s. The Head of the Estonian Noble Corporation Tonnies Wrangell lived here at the end of the 16th century. In

486-705: The harbor of St. Peter and St. Paul on June 18. From there he explored Bering Strait and the coast of Alaska. A sound north of Bering Strait was named Kotzebue Sound . In September he sailed south to California. Returning by the coast of Asia, he again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the Sandwich Islands during the Schäffer affair , an attempt by the Russian-American Company to seize Kauai . On January 1, 1817, Kotzebue discovered New Year Island . After further cruising in

513-419: The house was abandoned and left to decay for several decades. In 2006, Terje Kross and Eerik-Niiles Kross acquired the manor house. Although only a relic of its former self, Mary and Eerik were intrigued by the rich history of the place. Mary—an acclaimed filmmaker and artist—saw the manor's potential and committed herself to breathe new life into the house. The oldest part of the main building may date back to

540-497: The medieval manor house, referring to thick infrequent walls. The main building was built in several stages between the 14th and 19th centuries. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the main building was ornamented with lavish Baroque decorations. The classical appearance of the main building has survived to the present day. Columns adorning both the façade and the right side of the main building extend through two floors and are crowned by flat triangle frontispieces. Nowadays Kõue Manor

567-568: The northwest American coast to protect Russian settlements from the smuggling by foreign traders. A staff of scientists on board the Russian sailing sloop Enterprise collected much valuable information and material in geography, ethnography and natural history. Naturalist Eschscholtz again accompanied Kotzebue along with geologist Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann , astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Preuss and physicist Emil Lenz . The expedition left Kronstadt on July 28, 1823, and rounded Cape Horn on December 23. Kotzebue visited Chile and then sailed west through

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594-476: The prominence of Baltic Germans in Imperial Russia's naval expeditions around 1800. On promotion to lieutenant, Kotzebue was placed in command of an expedition fitted out at the expense of the imperial chancellor, Count Nikolay Rumyantsev , on the brig Rurik . In this vessel, with only twenty-seven men, including the naturalists Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz and Adelbert von Chamisso , and

621-635: The scientific team included botanist Adelbert von Chamisso and artist Louis Choris . The expedition left Kronstadt , Russia, on 30 June 1815, stopping at the Canary Islands in September and then crossing the Atlantic to Santa Catarina, Brazil. They passed Cape Horn in January 1816 and sailed north for several months to reach Kamchatka in July. From there they spent the rest of 1816 visiting

648-625: Was born and raised in Reval (Tallinn), Estonia , then part of the Russian Empire . He was the second son of German writer and diplomat August von Kotzebue . The Kotzebue family was of Brandenburgish origin; his earliest known patrilineal ancestors were from Kossebau in Altmark . After attending the Saint Petersburg school of cadets, he accompanied Adam Johann von Krusenstern on his voyage of 1803–1806. Both attested to

675-741: Was commissioned to return to the North Pacific to resupply Kamchatka and then proceed to Alaska to protect the Russian American Company from smugglers. Eschscholtz accepted an offer to participate in this second voyage and left Kronstadt on 28 July 1823 aboard the Predpriaetie ( Enterprise ). Again Eschscholtz amassed significant collections of natural history specimens, especially insects. Substantial insect collections were made in Hawaii, Alaska, and California. After

702-692: Was one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Pacific region, making significant collections of flora and fauna in Alaska, California, and Hawaii. Eschscholtz was born in the Livonian city of Dorpat , then part of the Russian Empire . His parents, Johann Gottfried and Katherine Hedwig Ziegler Eschscholtz were ethnic Baltic Germans . He studied medicine and zoology at the University of Dorpat and served as an assistant to Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ,

729-521: Was the first scientific description of California's flora and the first reference to California in the title of a scientific paper. He also published some of his entomological finds in Entomographien (1822). After his first voyage, Eschscholtz married Christine Friedrike Ledebour and became an assistant professor at the University of Dorpat in 1819. He was later appointed director of the university's zoological museum in 1822. In 1823, Kotzebue

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