Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

5 months ago

#Leberechti H. (Hans Leberecht, 1910-60)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Estonian writer, born and raised (essentially) in #Russia and couldn’t speak a word of Estonian, winner of the 1949 #StalinPrize (third class) for his 1948 novel Свет в Коорди (Light in #Koordi) about clearing a bog (and planting
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

The #Latvian for #Estonia is #Igaunija. #Sovietoccupation renaming (1960-1990): #Leberechti H. Also western half of the arc that was once the semi-circular #Kaare.
#History #Ajalugu
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