Mahtra sõda
Memorial plaque at Nunne 7 in Tallinn, where Eduard Vilde wrote Mahtra sõda | |
| Author | Eduard Vilde |
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| Language | Estonian |
| Publisher | J. H. Wahtrik |
Publication date | 1902 |
| Publication place | Estonia |
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Mahtra sõda (The Mahtra War) is a 1902 novel by Eduard Vilde. It is the first part of a trilogy of historical novels about the peasant movements of the 1900s. The second work of the trilogy is Kui Anija mehed Tallinnas käisid (When Anija's Men Went to Tallinn, 1903), and the third part is Prohvet Maltsvet (Prophet Maltsvet, 1905–1908).
The novel is about the peasant insurgency known as the Mahtra War. The uprising took place from May to July 1858 at Mahtra Manor in the former Juuru Parish.