History Archives - Baltic Lives

Evacuation of Riga – Summer 1915

“Monday began as a normal day. Although ‘normal’ was a relative term lately. Ever since April, waves of refugees had

In the Latvian military record of Žanis (John) Zekants, it states that he graduated from the Rīgas Amatnieku skolas, known

Most people know all about the 1917 Russian Revolution which spelled the end of the Tsarist system and the rise

Old family photographs are so precious. Some of us have hundreds, some may have only a handful and sadly others

The importance of song and dance to the people of the Baltic nations cannot be overstated. For many decades, song

I am excited to let everyone know that I now have a Facebook page for Baltic Lives. I have created

About 10 km east of the town of Talsi in northwest Latvia is the small historical village of Nurmuiža (located

5,327 km from Riga lies the small Siberian village known in Latvian as Lejas Bulāna (Nizhnyaya Bulanka in Russian). This

How to Represent Freedom In 1922, the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation of Latvia, proposed erecting a new

Founding and Early History More than seven centuries ago, groups of Teutonic knights and warrior monks (known as the Livonian