Tallinn love is restrained and laconic. It is not addressed to the present, but to the past. It is woven into the fabric of streets and squares. It may seem naive and provincial, but never – false and vulgar. The sublime and mundane, romantic and ingenuous, platonic and the most carnal, being in an endless duel with its opponents – oblivion and death – it sounds an inexhaustible source of urban folklore.
Legends and legends are the recognition of the townspeople in love for the native city. To hear them, to find out, to feel, to find a rational grain in the seemingly fairy -tale plots is to truly understand Tallinn.
“The executioner himself was on all the hands of the master. In addition to conducting executions, he was obliged to monitor the sanitary -hygienic condition of streets and public morality, provide medical assistance and even act as a guarantor of the legality of the municipal elections.”
“In the restaurant, which settled in the house” Damn Wedding “, Pose …
Author
Katz Josef
Editor
Smirnova N. Yu.
Publisher
Vector, 2014
Series
Special view: Cities and countries
16+
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