Erich Sonntag's collection is always up for a surprise--and today I've got a bunch of old photographs of Reval I found tucked away amidst the postcards from the USSR
The first one of these in a while that’s of someplace I’ve been. A pretty town; I had a nice time there.
I never knew the name Reval. There are a lot of these German names of places in central and eastern Europe that are now known by their indigenous names which may be still be fairly familiar to some, but I still encounter them piecemeal with some surprise.
I've never been to any of the Baltic states (but I'm supposed to attend a conference in Vilnius in April), and I'm doubly happy you like this posting.
As to the names, well, many things change over time, but "old", multiple names are quite wide-spread across East-Central Europe, which makes this a fantastic, if very also very sad, topic to study.
The first one of these in a while that’s of someplace I’ve been. A pretty town; I had a nice time there.
I never knew the name Reval. There are a lot of these German names of places in central and eastern Europe that are now known by their indigenous names which may be still be fairly familiar to some, but I still encounter them piecemeal with some surprise.
I've never been to any of the Baltic states (but I'm supposed to attend a conference in Vilnius in April), and I'm doubly happy you like this posting.
As to the names, well, many things change over time, but "old", multiple names are quite wide-spread across East-Central Europe, which makes this a fantastic, if very also very sad, topic to study.