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Olga’s “Party Picture”

This is definitely my favourite of all the old photos my father-in-law has from his father’s family. My husband and […]

History & Style In the first years of the 20th century, architects such as Mikhail Eisenstein created the opulent buildings

The name for this street, ‘Miera iela’ or ‘Peace Street’ in English, goes back to the mid-19th century. But until

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

The world suddenly stopped. The cold dark winter air was violently sucked from his lungs. Andrejs stumbled but kept on

Lāčupes cemetery is a serene wooded oasis just north of the industrial neighborhood of Iļģuciems in Riga, located in the Kleistu

For three days in the middle of 1910, the city of Riga hosted an unprecedented visit by the Tsar of

St. Martin’s Lutheran Church is one of the most prominent churches in Riga. Until the middle of the 1800s, there

The neighbourhood of Iļģuciems on the west bank of the Daugava River in Riga was an important industrial centre as