Erast Hiatsintov

Erast Hiatsintov
Mayor of Tallinn
In office
February 1905 – December 1905
Preceded byKarl Johann von Hueck
Succeeded byEugen Edmund Eduard Erbe
Personal details
Born(1858-11-10)10 November 1858
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died7 April 1910(1910-04-07) (aged 51)
Reval, Russian Empire (modern-day Tallinn, Estonia)
Alma materMoscow State University

Erast Georgievich Hiatsintov (Russian: Эра́ст Гео́ргиевич Гиаци́нтов; 10 November 1858 – 7 April 1910) was a Russian Empire politician who was the mayor of Reval (now Tallinn) in from February 1905 to December of that year, notably becoming the first person of Russian descent to become the mayor of Reval. Consequently, he was also the first person of non-Baltic German descent to become mayor, the culmination of an Estonian-Russian political alliance, created by future Estonian president Konstantin Päts and Jaan Poska that broke the power that Baltic Germans had in the political system of the city for centuries.