“Rally Under the Latvian Flag!” This was the headline of the exhortation published on July 19, 1915, by Latvian members of the Imperial Russian Duma, JÄnis Goldmanis and JÄnis ZÄlÄ«tis, announcing that the Imperial Russian Army was allowing the formation
Tombstone Tuesday – LÅ«sis Family
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Top
Diploma of Aleksandrs Francis – July 4, 1944
My grandfather Aleksandrs Francis attended the Jelgava Academy of Agriculture and graduated in 1944. He had also spent some time in Uppsala, Sweden, in a student exchange at Uppsala University. This is the diploma that was issued to him on
Tombstone Tuesday – Ernests EglÄ«tis, 1881-1940
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Name:
WW1 Diary – June 27, 1916
Twenty-eighth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
WW1 Diary – June 26, 1916
Twenty-seventh installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
Tombstone Tuesday – KrÅ«miņš and Dulmanis Family
In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned. Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge. Names:
WW1 Diary – June 24, 1916
Twenty-sixth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather’s sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to
RÄ«ga Banns – Week of June 23, 1925
Part of my series of publishing the banns read in RÄ«ga in the interwar period. See this post for more details. June 20, 1925 (Latvijas VÄ“stnesis [Latvian Herald], June 26, 1925) Eižens NikolÄjs Pillings (Jelgava) and Marija Anna Feldt (RÄ«ga)
Fire at RÄ«ga Castle
Last night, just after 10pm local time, a fire broke out on the roof of the Castle of RÄ«ga, which spread to several floors over the next few hours, burning several thousand square metres of area (some estimates say 3200