Johannes Vares and his wife Emilie in 1931
Johannes Vares (pseudonym: Johannes Barbarus) (1890 - 29 November 1946) was a Estonian poet and politician.
Johannes Vares visited the Pärnu gym and studied medicine in Kiev (1910-1914). During the First World War he worked as an army physician in Galicia. During the independence war of Estonia he worked as an army doctor in the Estonian army (1918-1920). After the war he worked as a doctor in Pärnu.
Johannes Vares was active as poet: he published under the writer John Barbarus. As a francophile he was inspired by the French Clarté group and by Émile Verhaeren. His main sealants are 'The geometric human' (Geomeetriline inimene, 1924) and 'The multiplied person' (Multiplitseerit inimene, 1927). Both have a cubic design. Barbarus applies in the history of Estonian literature as the one who treated modern city life.
After the Soviet Union had occupied Estonia on 17 June 1940, Johannes Vares was appointed as Prime Minister (21 June). On 14 and 15 July 1940, elections were held for the "parliament of parliament". Only candidates approved by the Soviet Union were allowed to participate. On July 21, 1940, President Konstantin Päts finished and Vares became president. The new state government of Estonia requested Moscow to include Estonia as a Soviet republic in the USSR. On August 6, 1940, this "request" was honored and Estonia was included under the name Estonian Socialist Soviet Republic in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After that, Vares became a member of the Estonian Communist Party (EKP).
From 25 August 1940 until 29 November 1946 he was President of the Supreme Soviet Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR.
Johannes Vares committed suicide at the end of 1946.
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