Mari Raamot

Mari Raamot (birth name Mari Tamm; August 6, 1872 in Kiltsi, Tarvastu Parish (now Viljandi Parish), Kreis Fellin – March 12, 1966 in New York City) was an Estonian socialist, homemaker, and founder of the Estonian women's national defense movement.

[1] One of er four sisters was singer and pedagogue Aino Tamm.

Her brother was horn player and music figure Jaan Tamm.

During her teenage years she studied home economics at the Lilli Suburg Girls' School in Viljandi, then at Königsberg, and later at Kiel and Leipzig, and worked as a home teacher in St. Petersburg.

Jaan Raamot died in 1927[2] During the first German occupation in 1918, she was imprisoned.