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, (12-18^th C), later taking on the meaning of ‘suburb’, while its Estonian translation of agul often tended to mean ‘slum’, especially late 18^th, early 19^th C. The Старая Слобода (old sloboda) was about 400-500 ENE close to Poska J.. See Jakobsoni C.R. and Tatari.