Kindral. Professor. Vandeadvokaat

This book contains a piece of history of Estonia in the 20th century.

It is the memoirs of lawyer Aino-Eevi Lukas about his father Jaan Lukas, who as an officer took part in the First World War, the War of Independence, where he earned the Freedom Cross of the First Class, Third Class for his bravery, a colonel of the Estonian Defense Forces, who graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu in 1940 and who became a member of the Second World War Chief of Staff of the Estonian Rifle Corps, major general, but whose life ended in 1953 in a Stalinist prison camp.

Here we also talk about the husband of Aino-Eevi Lukas, professor and doctor of law, Ilmar Rebas, who was a barrister and the most prominent legal scholar of the second half of the 20th century in Estonia.

You can learn a lot about Aino-Eevi Lukas himself, a two-time Soviet Union champion in horse riding, an Olympic nominee, persecuted by the Soviet authorities, a lawyer, the first chairman of the Tartu City Council of newly independent Estonia and a practicing barrister.