Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia,on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea,Tallinn has a population of about 461,000 and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county). Tallinn is the main governmental,financial,industrial,and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located 187 km (116 mi) northwest of the country's second largest city,Tartu;however,only 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki,Finland,also 320 km (200 mi) west of Saint Petersburg,Russia,300 km (190 mi) north of Riga,Latvia,and 380 km (240 mi) east of Stockholm,Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century,Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval.
The Estonian Provincial Assembly or Estonian State Diet, also often called by its Estonian name Maapäev,was elected in May–June 1917 during the Russian Revolution as the provincial parliament (diet) of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia. On 28 November 1917,after the October Revolution in Russia,the Assembly declared itself the sole sovereign power in Estonia and called for the elections of the Estonian Constituent Assembly. On the eve of the German occupation of Estonia during World War I the council elected the Estonian Salvation Committee and issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence on 24 February 1918.
Otto August Strandman was an Estonian politician,who served as Prime Minister (1919) and State Elder of Estonia (1929–1931).
Harju County,is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia,on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland,and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east,Järva County to the southeast,Rapla County to the south,and Lääne County to the southwest. The capital and largest city of Estonia,Tallinn,is situated in Harju County. Harju is the largest county in Estonia in terms of population,as almost half (45%) of Estonia's population lives in Harju County.
The Governorate of Estonia,also known as the Esthonia (Estland) Governorate,was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire. It was located in the northern Estonia with some islands in the West Estonian archipelago,including Hiiumaa and Vormsi. Previously,the Reval Governorate existed during Peter I's reign and was confirmed by the Treaty of Nystad,which ceded territory from Sweden to the newly established Russian Empire. The Estonia Governorate was established in 1796 when Paul I's reforms abolished the Reval Viceroyalty. The port city of Reval was the administrative centre where the governor had his seat.
Edgar von Wahl was a Baltic German mathematics and physics teacher who lived in Tallinn,Estonia. He also used the pseudonym Julian Prorók,and is best known as the creator of Interlingue,an international auxiliary language that was known as Occidental throughout his life.
Konstantin Päts was an Estonian statesman and the country's president from 1938 to 1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia,and during the two decades prior to World War II he also served five times as the country's State Elder. He carried out a self-coup on 12 March 1934. After the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia,Päts remained formally in office for over a month,until he was forced to resign,imprisoned by the new Stalinist regime,and deported to the USSR,where he died in 1956.
Ado Birk,was an Estonian politician who was the Estonian Prime Minister for the shortest time.
August Rei was an Estonian politician. He served as State Elder of Estonia from 1928 to 1929,and as Prime Minister in duties of the President of the Estonian government-in-exile from 1945 to 1963.
Jaan Poska VR III/1 was an Estonian barrister and politician.
The Defence Forces Cemetery of Tallinn,sometimes called the Tallinn Military Cemetery,is one of the three cemeteries of the Tallinn City Centre Cemetery. It is situated about 3 kilometres outside the centre of Tallinn,the capital of Estonia. During Estonian independence before the Soviet and German occupations of the 1940–1991 period,it was Estonia's foremost military cemetery.
The Autonomous Governorate of Estonia of the Russian state was established as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and ceased to exist prior to Estonia becoming a fully independent country in 1918.
Platon,born Paul Kulbusch,was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.
Tallinn City Council is the representative body of the municipality of Tallinn,the capital and biggest city of Estonia.
Voldemar Lender was an Estonian engineer who was the mayor of Tallinn from 1906 to 1913,notably being the first ethnic Estonian to become the mayor of Tallinn.
Viktor Karl Jakob von Maydell,Baron von Maydell,was a Baltic German railway engineer and politician who was the mayor of Reval from December 1885 to July 1894.
Karl Johann von Hueck was a Baltic German politician who was the mayor of Reval from April 1895 to February 1905. He graduated from the University of Tartu's Faculty of Economics in 1865,and went abroad thereafter. He was a farmer throughout what is now Estonia. He managed Laitse and Kukruse manors after his return,and later owned Munalaskme manor. From 1891 to 1894,he was the secretary of the Estonian Agricultural Society,and was the chairman and honorary member of the Estonian Horticultural Society. von Hueck later became the mayor of Reval from April 1895 to February 1905. He was later a city councilor in Reval from 1905 to 1912. He was succeeded by Erast Hiatsintov.
Erast Georgievich Hiatsintov was a Russian Empire politician who was the mayor of Reval in from February 1905 to December of that year,notably becoming the first person of Russian descent to become the mayor of Reval. Consequently,he was also the first person of non-Baltic German descent to become mayor,the culmination of an Estonian-Russian political alliance,created by future Estonian president Konstantin Päts and Jaan Poska that broke the power that Baltic Germans had in the political system of the city for centuries.
Voldemar Vöölmann was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the city government of Tallinn from September 1917 to March 1918.
August Eduard Kastra was an Estonian journalist and a trade union leader. He was the first chair of the Confederation of Estonian Trade Unions in Estonia and a member of the Reval (Tallinn) Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in early 20th century. Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin’s great purge in 1936,he died in the Gulag concentration camp in October 1941.
