Bohnenspiel → German, Italian. Already in 1916, the Bohnenspiel (Bean Game) was called "an old German game" by the game pastor Fritz Jahn (1863-1931) who rediscovered it in 1908 while visiting Baron Viktor von Stackelberg at his estate in Kardis (Island of Ösel), Estonia. The baron owned a replica of the famous mancala set which was a gift from the Shah of Persia (probably Aga Mohammed) to Czarina Catherine the Great (reign 1762-1796), born Sophie von Anhalt-Zerbst. The original is to this day kept in the art collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Like all German nobles the Stackelbergs who owned the estate since 1532 were expropriated by the Estonian government in 1919.