Juhan Leinberg

Juhan Leinberg (26 September 1812 – 28 August 1885), also known as Prophet Maltsvet, was a founder of a religious sect named after him (the Maltsvetians) in Estonia.

In 1854 he started preaching in northern Estonia and called on people to give up collecting wealth.

The most fanatic of the Maltsvetians waited in May and June 1861 at Lasnamäe for the coming of the "White Ship" that was to take them to the promised land.

The followers of Maltsvet also played an important part in the peasant rebellions in Albu and Ahula in November 1861.

[1] The Finnish author Aino Kallas wrote the short story "Lasnamäen valkea laiva" (The White Ship of Lasnamäe), which portrays the members of Leinberg's religious sect waiting for a white ship to take them into paradise, as Leinberg had promised according to the story.