Names
Rotermanni (Christian X Rotermann)
Four-generation dynasty of industrialists called Christian <insert second name here> Rotermann, running businesses as diverse as building materials, department store, factories for iron- and woodworking, raw flax and starch processing, distilling, flour-milling and baking, macaroni, as well as trading grain, buying from as far away as Western Siberia, and trading in the salt stored in the Rotermanni soolaladu, or salt depot, today the Estonian Museum of Architecture. Various scenes from Tarkovski’s film Stalker were shot in present-day Rotermanni Kvartal, and there is now a Stalkeri käik off Hobujaama. Tallinn already had a Solaris shopping mall (opened March 2009)...
Rõugu (Rõuk)
1) One of the stakes in the back of a farm cart holding the sides in place; 2) Hay or corn stacked on a triangular or A-shaped rack, or the rack itself. Given its immediate neighbors, Kubu, Vihu, etc., probably 2), but it is not without the realms of possibility that during the muddy 1840s the same wood may have served for both, such as a present-day USB key can be adroitly used to keep a window ajar.
