The article presents new information about century-old events, which connects the history of acquiring independence by two Baltic states — Latvia and Estonia. With the help of specialists from Cēsis Museum of History and Art, the author of the research has managed to supplement the up to now little-known and contradictory story about Estonian national hero Johans (Jānis) Muižnieks who was the first to fall in the battle during the Estonian War of Independence and who was an ethnic Latvian from Rauna. After the family members of the Estonian literary worker and translator Mati Somre were found in Tallinn, as well as the sister of the fallen Johans (Jānis) Muižnieks, Albertīne Sietiņsone (b. Muižniece), it turned out that they had stored a large part of yet unstudied archival documents of the Muižnieks family, which allowed to make research on the family and biography of the fallen Estonian national hero. Several photos of Jānis Muižnieks and his family members are published here for the first time.
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