Mustvee, until 1923 Černý Posad, Černo, Černa, Černé Gory - an intravail town in Jõgevamaa County, Estonia. Before the administrative-territorial reform of 2017, it was an independent city municipality and was not part of any volost, after the reform it became the administrative center of Mustvee volost.
The first written records of the village of Chorna
(Mustut) on the shores of Lake Peipsi date back to 1493. Before the
formation of a permanent settlement, there were temporary fishing
houses of the peasants of the village of Tyahkvere and others.
Mustvee is one of the centers of the Old Believers in Estonia.
Already at the beginning of the 18th century, the village was
inhabited mainly by Russian Old Believers - Fedoseevites and Pomors,
who fled from persecution for their faith. The Old Believer
community of the Pomor accord exists in Mustvee even now. The life
of local Old Believers can be found in the City Museum. At the
beginning of the 19th century, there were 371 houses in the village,
and the number of inhabitants reached more than 1900 people.
On the military topographic maps of the Russian Empire (1846-1863),
which included the Estland province, the settlement is designated as
Black.
In 1802, a wooden prayer house was built here by the
merchant Joachim Goryushkin.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, there were seven church buildings in the Black Posad. Four
of them have survived: the Church of St. Nicholas (the Estonian
Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate), the Trinity Church
(formerly of the same faith), the Old Believer Church and the
Lutheran Church. There is also a Baptist prayer house in the city.
Mustvee received the status of a town in 1938.
The city
has repeatedly suffered in large fires: in 1918, 120 houses burned
down, in the summer of 1944 (mainly due to massive air attacks)
almost 70% of buildings were destroyed.
In 1950-1959 Mustvee
was the center of Mustvee region.
On 2 April 2013 Mustvee
City Council elected Tallinn City Council Deputy Max Kaur as mayor.
On December 18, 2014, the opening ceremony of the new passenger
port in Mustvee, built with financial support from the structural
funds of the European Union, took place. The port in Mustvee is not
only new prospects for economic cooperation between the Russian and
Estonian border regions, but also an important factor in the system
of relations between the EU and the Russian Federation.
It is
known that at the beginning of the 20th century, the steamer
Tsarevich Alexander approached the berths of the “capital of the
Estonian whimsical”, and in the mid-1960s, the “Rockets” - hydrofoil
vessels plying between Mustvee, Tartu and Pskov.