Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

7 months ago

#Laari J. (Joosep Laar, 1905-1943)
#Historical #Ajalooline
One of the 11 Estonians ever to receive a Gold star medal of the #HeroOfTheSovietUnion, an honor he shared with #Gagarin, #Brezhnev (4-times prize-winner!) and #Trotsky’s ice-axe assassin. #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-91) of #Villardi.

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

#Villardi (?)
Uncertain, known as Willase in 1875 after local peasant farmer Karl Willase (from willane/villane, woollen?) or Wilas, but recorded as Villari in an 1885 Tallinn guide book.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba #Uus Maailm
#Unexplained #Seletamatu
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