Lasteaia (Lasteaid)

Kindergarten, nursery or infants’ school. Soviet occupation renaming (1950-1991) of Magdaleena.

• Deadname

Lastekodu (Lastekodu)

Orphanage, foundling-hospital, baby farm. Named after the one on Tartu founded in 1817 to celebrate Martin Luther and the 300th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, with a bequest by Christian Mayer, senior clergyman of Oleviste and city funds. Street seems first named early 19^th C (prob. long before, given the 1817 date above) as Manegenstr / Манежная ул, translated or transcribed into Est. as Maneeži (after nearby barracks), then Armenkinderstr (poor children st.) or Сиротская ул (sirotskaya: orphanage st.), followed by Lutheri Vaestelaste (Luther Orphanage st) and a bundle of date, language and spelling permutations since then. Cheapskate copy-and-paste coming up*: Lutheri-Vaestekooli (Luther’s orphanage school), shortened to Lutheri or Lutri, along with Kinderheimstraße, Luteri-Vaestekooli, Luther Waisenhausstr, Lutherstr, Lutherwaisenhausstr, Lutre-Vaestekooli, Lutri-Vaestekooli, Vaestemaja, Лютерско-Сиротская ул, Сиротская-Лютерская ул and Сиротско-Лютерская ул. The novel Vaeste-Patuste Alev (Poor Sinners’ Ville, 1927) was the prize-winning debut of August Jakobson (1904-1963), the ‘leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama’ and, later, head of the Presidium of the ESSR Supreme Soviet. The poverty he describes turned him into a hard line Communist and implacable opponent of soft socialist Friedebert Tuglas (see Väikese Illimari).

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