Jäneda is a small village in northern Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

. It is located in Lääne-Viru County (from autumn 2005) and is a part of Tapa Commune.

The village hosts an old manor, called Yendel, now converted to a museum and conference center. The manor was owned in the early 1900's by Countess, later Baroness, Moura (Maria Zakrevskaya Benckendorff) Budberg

Moura Budberg

Moura Zakrevskaya, variously Countess Benckendorff and Baroness Budberg was the daughter of Ignaty Platonovitch Zakrevsky , a Russian nobleman. She first married Count Johann von Benckendorff, a high-ranking Czarist diplomat, in 1911...

, who has been called the "Mata Hari

Mata Hari

Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...

 of Russia" and who was close to Sir R. H. Bruce Lockhart

R. H. Bruce Lockhart

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG , was a journalist, author, secret agent, British diplomat in Moscow and Prague, and footballer...

, Russian writer Maxim Gorki and H.G. Wells.

Ugri.info seminar on Finno-Ugric languages

Finno-Ugric languages

Finno-Ugric , Finno-Ugrian or Fenno-Ugric is a traditional group of languages in the Uralic language family that comprises the Finno-Permic and Ugric language families....

 and infosystems was held there on either 3 December 2004 or March 12, 2004.

External links

• Jäneda village website (available in Estonian, English, Finnish, and Russian)
• Jäneda mansion website
• Ugri.info web
• Greengate