Finding and Using Latvian Maps
Any historian or genealogist will agree that maps are an essential tool to making sense of research, creating mental images […]
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Places
Nurmuiža: Manor House, Lutheran Church & Rectory
About 10 km east of the town of Talsi in northwest Latvia is the small historical village of Nurmuiža (located
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1 Sophia St – A Latvian Boarding House in Wales
What do the Cardiff docklands, a boarding house, a declaration of war and international Rugby legend Gus Risman have to
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Lejas Bulāna – Latvian Village in Siberia
5,327 km from Riga lies the small Siberian village known in Latvian as Lejas Bulāna (Nizhnyaya Bulanka in Russian). This
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Kārlis Zāle – Shine Like a Star!
How to Represent Freedom In 1922, the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation of Latvia, proposed erecting a new
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Birth, Death & Chocolate – 11 Miera Street (Part 2)
History & Style In the first years of the 20th century, architects such as Mikhail Eisenstein created the opulent buildings
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Birth, Death & Chocolate – Miera Street, Riga (Part 1)
The name for this street, ‘Miera iela’ or ‘Peace Street’ in English, goes back to the mid-19th century. But until
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A Dangerous Sect – Baptists in Latvia
In the middle of the 19th century, most people in modern-day Latvia were either Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Jewish. These
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Disaster at Okte Manor
As evening set in on a frigid day in mid-December, with the winter sun already hidden away, a small group
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Lāčupes Cemetery – A Forest Oasis in Riga
Lāčupes cemetery is a serene wooded oasis just north of the industrial neighborhood of Iļģuciems in Riga, located in the Kleistu
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Daugavpils Prison “The White Swan”
An imposing white brick building rises four stories high in the center of Daugavpils City. It is surrounded by an
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Valdemārs Sailing Schools / Valdemāra jūrskola
In 1864, the famous Latvian scholar and nationalist, Krišjānis Valdemārs, founded a school in the northern coastal town of Ainaži.
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St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Riga
St. Martin’s Lutheran Church is one of the most prominent churches in Riga. Until the middle of the 1800s, there
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Iļģuciems – Industrial Riga in the Early 20th Century
The neighbourhood of Iļģuciems on the west bank of the Daugava River in Riga was an important industrial centre as
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