Mine Furniture By Mati Karmin

In December 1917, a group of Russian sailors commandeered Naissaar and proclaimed an independent "socialist republic", known as the Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Nargen, under the leadership of Stepan Petrichenko. The Russian sailors, numbering about 80-90 men, formed a government and levied taxes on the local population. The "republic" ceased to exist on February 26, 1918 when German forces occupied the island, causing the Russians to flee.
The Estonian Provisional Government executed forty Bolshevik prisoners of war here in February 1919.