The family moved away and the buildings housed the Estonian National Museum until the manor was destroyed during the Second World War.

Part of the grounds became Raadi Airfield which was used as a secret Soviet bomber base for fifty years.

[5] Karl Eduard von Liphart created a large collection of drawings and graphic art which is still owned by the Estonian National Museum.

Father and son were estranged in 1873 and Ernst later moved to Russia where he continued to paint and mix with the Russian nobility.

The Liphart family moved away during World War I[4] and the Russian Revolution heralded the start of sales of the more valuable part of the art collection in Copenhagen in 1920.

This was a bold move as the Liphart family of Baltic German aristocrats were viewed as "ideologically and culturally revolting" by the local Estonians.

[3] Today the Estonian National Museum has buildings for storage at Raadi and the ice house and gatehouse have been renovated.