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Vastseliina Manor

Vastseliina Manor (, ) was a knight's manor in Vana-Vastseliina, Võru County, Estonia.

History

In the Middle Ages, the owner of the manor was the Bishop of Tartu. After the Livonian War, the manor was a or state manor of the Vastseliina starostwo in the Dorpat Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1776, the cavalry guard captain Karl Gotthard von Liphart (1719–1792) established a fideicommissum of the Liphart family in his will for Vastseliina, , and other appertaining manors, as well as for Raadi Manor and its appertaining manors, including the Raadi majorat manor. The last owner of the manor before the transfer of the manors in 1919 was Reinhold Karl von Liphart. Most of the manor's buildings were destroyed in a fire on April 25, 1925.

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived at the manor include the following:

  • Arvo Horm (1913–1996), Estonian politician, economist, and journalist

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