Names
Saali A.
(Andres Saal, 1861-1931)
Estonian writer of patriotic historical fiction (studied photography in Germany, worked in Jakarta, retired and died in San Francisco...), street existed until late 1950s, south of Tartu mnt, halfway between and parallel to present-day Liivalaia and Kreutzwaldi F.R. Prior to this, the street was called Fruchtstraße or Фруктовая (Fruktovaya), fruit street (1907-1916), with the Estonian Puuvilja added afterwards (1908-1936), Saalstraße in 1942, and at one stage in its past as Дмитровка (Dmytrovka) which seems to be quite a common Russian toponym, but what its relevance here is is obscure. Kivi says nothing.
Saani (Saan)
Sleigh, sledge, a variety of which was the kosesaan, or bark sleigh, with bark-made surrounds protecting against the wind. Began life as Казарменная ул. and/or Kasernen Weg, barracks (-1870), then switched to Schlittengasse, sledge alley (odd, next to Suve), in 1882, Saani (1885) in Estonian and Санная (1907) in Russian.
