Background
Mart Raud was born in Aidu, Governorate of Livonia.
Mart Raud was born in Aidu, Governorate of Livonia.
He attended the village school in Heimtali (today Pärsti Parish) and the parish schools in Paistu and Viljandi.
Later he attended the University of Tartu studying literature. In the 1920s, Raud joined the literary movement Arbujad. He was the father of children"s writer Eno Raud.