Names
Tiskrevälja (Tiskreväli)
Area/Land outside/around the former Tiskre village. Earlier iterations of the name include Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach, 1522), Diskerkulle (Tiskre village, 1531) and Tischer (manor, 1798, see Mõisa). DEPn implies an MLG Discher origin for Tischer, equivalent to mod. Ger. Tischler, carpenter or furniture-maker, but as any Smith, Wright or Fletcher would know, trades often end up as personal names. See Välja.
Tisleri A.
(Alice Tisler, 1893-1918)
Who once lived in this street. Daughter of a farm laborer, tulihingeline kommunist (ardent, lit. ‘fire-bespirited’, communist), member of the Tallinn Red Guard, killed in the Battle of Keila, 1918-02-23. Soviet occupation renaming (1949-1990) of Magasini.
Tobiase R. (Rudolf Tobias, 1873-1918)
First Estonian professional composer, whose Julius Caesar was also the country’s first symphonic work. Face on the front of the 50-krooni banknote with the Estonian Opera House on the back (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Previously Slobodi (-1923) after Peter I’s Russian quarter Новая Слобода (new sloboda), where Слобода originally designated a settlement free of certain obligations, essentially taxes, (12-18th C), later taking on the meaning of ‘suburb’, while its Estonian translation of agul often tended to mean ‘slum’, especially late 18th, early 19th C. The Старая Слобода (old sloboda) was about 400-500 ENE close to Poska J.. See Jakobsoni C.R. and Tatari.
