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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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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Periodika – History Through Historical Newspapers
I honestly don’t know how I could have gone anywhere on this family history journey without the Periodika website. If
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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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Murderer Exonerated – The Tragic Death of Andrejs Zekants
The world suddenly stopped. The cold dark winter air was violently sucked from his lungs. Andrejs stumbled but kept on
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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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The 1897 All-Russia Census
In the winter of 1897, a census was taken across the entire Russian Empire. It was the first and last
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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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Žanis (John) Zekants
Žanis (John) Zekants is the link between all the family lines in this story. All of this history in some
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Jekob Zekants & Magreete Latīnis
Jekob Zekants and Magreete Latīnis are the parents of the five Zekants siblings that are at the heart of this family
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