History Archives - Baltic Lives

The Annele Trilogy: A Book for Young and Old by Anna Brigadere

Anna Brigadere (1861-1933) was a writer, playwright and poet working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is

On Thursday the 15th of October 2026, my family was visited by a film crew from Latvia. They came all

“For my sake, father and mother Sit in great hearts. Do not worry, Father and Mother, I shall bring you

“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

On the 25th of October, 1949, my father-in-law and his parents, Žanis and Lore Zekants, arrived as migrants to Australia.

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