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Riga in 1910
"About a year ago, while conducting a reasearch of the history of Riga in a library, I came asross an album dedicated to "the visit of his majesty the Emperor Nicholas I in Riga" dated 1910." This is the way this story whould begin. The fact is that the album really exists, althoug it is rather shabby (which you can see, taking a look at the large pictures, - we've carefully retained all the stains :)), and is kindly given to us by A. Milovsky. The first impression you get from the preview - it all remained the same! Not only the walls, but also the predestination of most of the buildings has merely changed, though almost a century has gone by - incredible! Here's an advice - load the large photos (size - under 150 Kb, dimensions - 1000x725 Pix) and read the vast descriptions - it's very interesting and cognitive. And so it is 1910, the revolution of 1905-07 has recently ended. WW1 is going to start in 4 years, the revolution in Russia - in 7 years and Latvia will become an independent coundty de-facto in 10 years.
The Blackhead house. Was wrecked during the bombing in 1941. After the war it was decided, that the house was not to be rebuilt and a public garden took its place. However, in 1999 the Blackhead house was rebuilt
The Museum of Arts
The Polytechnical University, the Latvian University now
The Orthodox cathedral. Turned into a planetarium durind the soviet period and given back to the church now
The building of the circuit court (now and then)
The Opera Theatre
The Vermanis park. Nowadays in summer as beautiful as it was
The Peter I monument. Evacuated and lost during WW1. Restored nowadays, however heated arguments over its remounting continue. Firstly, the place is occupied (the most important latvian monument - the Monument of Liberty is now here), secondly, its a sy
Yurmala
The Riga Stock (working as a stock again since 1993)