Peri is a village in
Põlva Parish
Põlva Parish ( et, Põlva vald) is a rural municipality in Põlva County, southeastern Estonia.
On 1 January 2009, it had a population of 3,882 and an area of 228.63 km².
In October 2013, the town of Põlva (formerly a separate municipalit ...
,
Põlva County
Põlva County ( et, Põlva maakond or ''Põlvamaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in south-eastern part of the country and borders Tartu, Valga and Võru counties. 28,507 people live in Põlva County – constituting 2.3% o ...
in southeastern
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
, about southeast of the town of
Põlva
Põlva () is a town in southeastern Estonia, the capital of Põlva County, and the centre of Põlva Parish.
Põlva is home for the Intsikurmu Song Festival Grounds, which regularly hosts concerts and summer activities, situated in a small for ...
. Its population was 364 as of 1 January 2010.
Peri was first mentioned in 1554 (''Memskul'', ''Perrist'').
The Peri manor is known to have existed in 1544, when it belonged to the von family. In the 18th century, it was acquired by the von
Glasenapps, and in 1863 by the
Lilienfelds who were its last owners before the dispossession in 1919. The wooden
Baroque
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main building has not survived.
After the
Soviet occupation
During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included the eastern regions of Poland (incorporated into two different ...
, the lands of the manor and nearby farms' lands were
nationalized
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...
and a
Vilde-named
kolkhoz
A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...
was established; thus the village centre now contains several Soviet-style residential and industrial buildings.
[ A local society centre with a library operates in Peri.
The 18 km-long (11 miles) Peri stream passes the village.
Geneticist ]Riin Tamm
Riin Tamm (born 12 August 1981) is an Estonian geneticist and a Popular science, science popularizer. She is the head of the Department of Youth and Talent Policy within the Ministry of Education and Research (Estonia), Estonian Ministry of Educ ...
(born 1981) spent her childhood living in Peri before going to a gymnasium in Tartu
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...
.
References
Villages in Põlva County
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