#Koidula

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

2 months ago

Art nouveau style house in Tallinn's Koidula street No.8. The façade, motifs and ironwork gate and fence wrought in symmetrical curving patterns stand in front of the 3-storey chateau-style house with dark-red pointy roof.

Elegant wooden house in Tallinn's Koidula street No.10a, home today to the Tammsaare museum, and home from 1932–1940 to the author himself. On the lawn in front of the house is a bust of A.H. Tammsaare.

Mansion built by a merchant called Christian Frese as silkworks in 1780, and underwent various changes of use including that of the St. Mary’s home for impoverished noblewomen (see article), a Russian museum and today the Lotte Kindergarden.

Mini bring-and-take library in Koidula street, Tallinn, featuring a first-edition copy of the present dictionary full to the brim with errors and blunders. 48 hours later, it was no longer there. Please pray for the poor soul who took it.

#Koidula L. (Lydia Koidula, 1843-1886)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
Lydia of the Dawn, sobriquet of the bushy-browed #LydiaEmilieFlorentineJannsen, #Estonian #kirjaneitsi (maiden of letters), poet and...
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

9 months ago

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name L. Koidula.

Plaque in Estonian and Russian in honor of Lydia Koidula, "Estonian poet and playwright" (Eesti luuletaja ja näitekirjanik, 1843-1886), street named after her in Tallinn.

Portrait of Lydia Koidula on the front of the former Estonian currency 100-krooni bill.

View along Koidula, Tallinn, from the Narva maantee direction.

#Koidula L. (Lydia Koidula, 1843-1886)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kadriorg
Lydia of the Dawn, sobriquet of the bushy-browed Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, Estonian #kirjaneitsi (maiden of letters), poet and journalist. Mugshot on 100-krooni note (for information on #Estonian currency, see #Krooni).
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

9 months ago

Front of an Estonian 1-crown banknote, featuring Kristjan Raud.

Back of an Estonian 1-crown banknote, featuring Toompea Castle, Tallinn.

Front of an Estonian 10-crown banknote, featuring Jakob Hurt.

Back of an Estonian 1-crown banknote, featuring the Tamme-Lauri oak, the oldest tree in Estonia, about 700 years old

Banknotes were available in denominations of 500, 100, 50, 25, 10, 5, 2 & 1 krooni,
as well as coins of 5 & 1 krooni, then 50, 20, 10 & 5 senti, or cents. For images on banknotes, see #Hiidtamme, #Jakobsoni C.R., #Kerese P., #Koidula L., #Oti,
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

11 months ago

#MuIsamaaOnMinuArm, see #Koidula, also presented that year), subsequently adopted as national anthem in 1920, and #banned by the #Soviets from 1945 to 1990.
#Bastards #Kaabakased
#СлаваУкраїні
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

First named as #Koidula (1926-1959) with whom #Liiv also, shall we say, identified. Briefly named #Tähelennu (1959-1960), shooting-star or space flight, the space race was on, and changed to this in 1960, along with its parallel of #Lauliku, so ‘verse’ it is.
#Poetry #Luule
#Songs #Laulud
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