Come and celebrate
Ten Years Celebration of the Grand Ball
Saturday, 25 September 2027 at Kadriorg Palace — early bird fee applies until 25 July 2027
Kadriorg Palace · Tallinn — Reval
Grand Ball Reval
The Swedish Club in Reval warmly welcomes you to the Grand Ball in Reval — Tallinn
The Next BallWelcome
A century-old Tradition, Reborn.
The Swedish Club in Reval was founded in 1924 and revived in 2016 after more than fifty years of slumber, with the first Grand Ball of the new era held in 2017. Each year the club gathers friends of Swedish culture in Estonia's capital for the Grand Ball at Kadriorg Palace — an evening of dinner, dancing and fellowship beneath the crystal chandeliers, with proceeds from the wine auction going to local charity.
2017 — 2027
Ten Years of the Grand Ball
In 2027 the Grand Ball in Reval celebrates its tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, the Swedish Club in Reval woke from its long slumber and once more threw open the doors of Kadriorg Palace — reviving a tradition that unites friends of Swedish culture for an evening of dinner, wine and waltz.
Join us on Saturday, 25 September 2027, as the chandeliers are lit for the tenth time in the new era.
Reserve your place at the anniversary ballHistory
The Swedish Club in Reval
On December 6th, 1924, some thirty Swedish and Finnish gentlemen gathered at the Hotel Kommerts in Reval to found a Swedish club. The initiators were the Swedish Pastor in Estonia Erik Petzäll, Wholesale Merchant Olof de Verdier, Director Axel Holmquist and Engineer Evald Hartman.
The club's purpose was stated in solemn words: to gather Swedish and Finnish residents of Reval for edification and sociable companionship, to strengthen their common bonds and deepen the love of the Swedish language and culture — and, in cases of need, to support distressed compatriots. The club operated from Bredgatan 15 and formed an independent section of the Estonia-Swedish association Svenska Odlingens Vänner, founded in 1909.
The club suspended its activities with the first Soviet occupation in 1940 and slept for over fifty years. In 2016 the Swedish Club in Reval rose again — with the same statutes from 1924, lightly adjusted — and the first revived Grand Ball followed in 2017. The club now resides a stone's throw from the Town Hall Square at Pikk 9. The club arranges festivities, lectures, gatherings and seminars that strengthen the fellowship of all Swedish-speaking souls in Reval.
The Board
The Board of the Club
Anders Hedman
Chairman
Gustaf Hertsius
Board member
Joakim Helenius
Board member
Patrick Anderson
Board member
Staffan Söderholm
Board member
Save the Date
The Next Grand Ball — 25 September 2027
Celebrating ten years of the revived ball at Kadriorg Palace
Read more & registerReval — Tallinn
Threads of History
Estonia's capital is Tallinn — but in Swedish the city is called Reval, a name used for centuries. Traces of the Swedish name remain in the old town, from the Reval Bookstore to the Reval Café. Kadriorg — Katarinadalen in Swedish — takes its name from the palace Peter the Great built for his Katarina, a story of love set in stone.
