Back cover, Riga Station
Back cover—Riga station
Back cover, Riga Station
Inside cover, City Park
Inside cover—Scene in the City Park
Inside cover, City Park
Monument to Lenin
Monument to V. I. Lenin sculptured by V. Ingals and V. Bogolyubov in 1950
Monument to Lenin
Monument to Lenin (reverse)
Monument to Lenin (reverse)
Monument to Lenin (reverse)
Revolution Museum
Revolution Museum. In the centre — Powder Tower, also known as Sand Tower (XIII century)
Revolution Museum
Revolution Museum (reverse)
Revolution Museum (reverse)
Revolution Museum (reverse)
Boulevard of the Communards
Boulevard of the Communards
Boulevard of the Communards
Boulevard of the Communards (reverse)
Boulevard of the Communards (reverse)
Boulevard of the Communards (reverse)
Council of Ministers
Building of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian S.S.R.
Council of Ministers
Council of Ministers (reverse)
Council of Ministers (reverse)
Council of Ministers (reverse)
Lenin Street
Lenin Street
Lenin Street
Lenin Street (reverse)
Lenin Street (reverse)
Lenin Street (reverse)
Economic Council
Building of the Economic Council of the Latvian S.S.R.
Economic Council
Economic Council (reverse)
Economic Council (reverse)
Economic Council (reverse)
Stucka residence
In this house on Kirov Street in 1888-1900 lived Peteris Stucka, prominent leader of the Latvian Communist Party. Here in the spring of 1900 V. I. Lenin had meetings with members of the Latvian social-democratic movement
Stucka residence
Stucka residence (reverse)
Peteris Stucka residence 1888-1900 (reverse)
Stucka residence (reverse)
Monument to Stucka
Monument to Peteris Stucka (1862-1932) by sculptor E. Melderis
Monument to Stucka
Monument to Stucka (reverse)
Monument to Stucka (the English caption is the only to omit his role as an outstanding member of the Latvian Communist party)
Monument to Stucka (reverse)
State Opera and Ballet
State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (If you go back to the prior page and compare this to the original black-and-white photo, not only has the photo been hand colorized, but the pedestrians have been retouched out, and an automobile and groundskeeper a few feet away, retouched in. In Soviet Latvia, even lowly groundskeepers could drive to work and park nearby as they tended to the greenery.
State Opera and Ballet
State Opera and Ballet (reverse)
State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (reverse)
State Opera and Ballet (reverse)
State Theatre
State Academic Theatre of Drama
State Theatre
State Theatre (reverse)
State Academic Theatre of Drama (reverse)
State Theatre (reverse)
Academy of Science
Building of the Academy of Science of the Latvian S.S.R. (noted as the "Palace of Knowledge" in every language except English)
Academy of Science
Academy of Science (reverse)
Academy of Science (reverse)
Academy of Science (reverse)
P. Stucka University
P. Stucka State University of Latvia
P. Stucka University
P. Stucka University (reverse)
P. Stucka University (reverse)
P. Stucka University (reverse)
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts of the Latvian S.S.R.
Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts (reverse)
Academy of Arts (reverse)
Academy of Arts (reverse)
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art (reverse)
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art (reverse)
Museum of Latvian and Russian Art (reverse)
Riga Castle
Riga Castle, built in the XIV century, home of the Central Museum of History of the Latvian S.S.R., the Janis Rainis Memorial Museum of Literature and the Fine Arts Museum
Riga Castle
Riga Castle (reverse)
Riga Castle (reverse)
Riga Castle (reverse)
Monument to 1905
Monument to the Heroes of 13 January 1905, by sculptor A. Terpilovsky. Erected on the ground where the tsarist troops opened fire on the demonstrating workers of Riga in the days of the first bourgeois-democratic Russian revolution.
Monument to 1905
Monument to 1905 (reverse)
Monument to the Heroes of 13 January 1905 (reverse)
Monument to 1905 (reverse)
Young Pioneers Palace
Young Pioneers Palace, which occupies a part of Riga Castle (XIV century)
Young Pioneers Palace
Young Pioneers Palace (reverse)
Young Pioneers Palace (reverse)
Young Pioneers Palace (reverse)
"Pioneer" cinema
"Pioneer" cinema
"Pioneer" cinema
"Pioneer" cinema (reverse)
"Pioneer" cinema (reverse)
"Pioneer" cinema (reverse)
Dom Cathedral
Domas (Thinkers' [sic.]) Cathedral (XIII-XIX centuries) — as we mentioned in our introduction, this mistranslation is a hallmark of Kremlin propaganda
Dom Cathedral
Dom Cathedral (reverse)
Dom Cathedral (reverse)
Dom Cathedral (reverse)
Church of St. Janis
Church of St. Janis (early XIII century)
Church of St. Janis
Church of St. Janis (reverse)
Church of St. Janis (reverse)
Church of St. Janis (reverse)
Rainis gravesite
Monument over the tomb of Janis Rainis (1865-1929), great Latvian poet and revolutionary
Rainis gravesite
Rainis gravesite (reverse)
Monument over the tomb of Janis Rainis (reverse)
Rainis gravesite (reverse)
City canal
City canal
City canal
City canal (reverse)
City canal (reverse)
City canal (reverse)
Komsomol Embankment
Komsomol Embankment
Komsomol Embankment
Komsomol Embankment (reverse)
Komsomol Embankment (reverse)
Komsomol Embankment (reverse)
Krišjanis Barons Street
Krišjanis Barons Street
Krišjanis Barons Street
Krišjanis Barons Street (reverse)
Krišjanis Barons Street (reverse)
Krišjanis Barons Street (reverse)