Parve (Parv)

Raft, after local liferaft station. Word also means flock, school or swarm.

Pasternaki M. (Mikhail Fadeevich Pasternak, 1908-1941)

Captain of the 1941 operational group of the Destruction (or Extermination) Battalions (Rus.: Истребительные батальоны [Istrebitelnyye batalony], Est.: Hävituspataljonid) formed from ‘local’ communists to fight Anti-Soviet partisans using, among others, an up-graded version of scorched earth tactics expanded to include not only farms, but also farmers, their wives, laborers and children. For some, a war criminal or perpetrator of crimes against humanity, for others (paraphrasing): “a hero whose name is inscribed in gold letters”. Please choose. No relation to Boris, author of Omar Sharif Goes to Town. See also Oki F. Soviet renaming (1979-1995) of Pikri.

Patareisadam (0)

Passenger port/terminal next to Linnahall. Group of five ports/harbors in Kalamaja. See Kalasadama.

Patkuli

(Dietrich Friedrich Patkul [?-1710])

Aka Dietrich von Friedrich Patkul, Friedrich Diederich Pattküll, etc. Swedish soldier and Vice-governor of Tallinn from 1707-1710. Apparently... Although his infamous and ill-fated relative Johann Reinhold von Patkul (1660-1707) – born in Stockholm prison and broken on the wheel in Poland for his part in the Great Northern War and desire to wrest Livonia from Swedish hands – may well have made him a more covert candidate. Name applies to both the steps (trepp) and the viewing-platform / belvedere (vaateplatvorm) itself on Toompark. See also Pilstickeri torn or trepp.

Patriarh Aleksius II (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929-2008)

Patriarch Alexy II, real name Алексе́й Миха́йлович Ри́дигер. Born in Estonia, altar boy in Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1946), studied at Leningrad Theological Seminary then Academy from 1947-1953, patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 till his death. His square is in front of the Church of the ‘Quick to Hear’ Icon of the Mother of God. Just in case you thought you could quietly move onto the next entry, Estonian has another quirk: while the genitive of Arabic ordinals requires a period, e.g. 2. for teise, of the 2nd (cf. 1. liin, etc.), the genitive of Roman ordinals (and despite the late present being more of a Russian Cardinal), e.g. II for teise, doesn’t, which explains that sub-psychological tremor you didn’t consciously feel (and will barely recall tomorrow morning after your repugnant nightmares tonight). But this is language. As an aside, there are not enough stars in the sky to count the infinite variety of sounds pronouced by our trivial trillion trilling tongues.