Lennart Meri


Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian politician, writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the movement to restore Estonian independence from the Soviet Union.

Lennart Meri was born in Tallinn, a son of the Estonian diplomat and later Shakespeare translator Georg Meri, and Estonian Swedish mother AliceBrigitta Engmann. With his family, Lennart left Estonia at an early age and studied abroad, in nine different schools and in four different languages. His warmest memories were from his school years in Lyce Janson de Sailly in Paris. In addition to his native Estonian, Lennart Meri fluently spoke five other languages Finnish, French, German, English and Russian.

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