Taguküla
Coordinates: 58 ° 48 ' N , 22 ° 51' E
Taguküla is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Hiiumaa (until 2017: rural municipality Käina ).
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Taguküla (German Tagoküll ) has 28 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).
The village is one of the four villages on the Hiiumaa island of Kassari .
Aino Kallas
The former summer home of the Finnish-Estonian writer Aino Kallas (1878–1956) is located in Taguküla . She spent numerous summers on Kassari between 1924 and 1928 with her husband, the Estonian diplomat Oskar Kallas (1868–1946).
In her fictional work, Kallas has often taken up subjects from Kassari and Hiiumaa. Examples are Barbara von Tisenhusen (1923), Reigin pappi (1926) and Sudenmorsian (1928). Love often leads to death in it. Kallas' volume of poems Kuoleman joutsen (1942) also contains poetry related to Kassari.
The red summer house is now a small museum dedicated to the life and work of Aino Kallas. A plaque on the outside wall reminds of their stay.
Other Estonian artists also came and still often come to Kassari. In the 1970s, the writer couple Jaan Kross (1920–2007) and Ellen Niit (* 1928) also built a summer house nearby .