LATVIA: Area 25,000 Sq. miles. Population 2,094,000
Rame Eihe*, a Latvian State University student, is wearing the traditional headdress and ornament as a performer in the "Saulgieji"* Folk Theatre in Riga.
The State Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Riga

* These should be Aija Rāme and "Saulgrieži" (appears as "Saulgrieji" with another illustration)—this sort of error is typical in Soviet sources originally written in Russian, the product of names phonetically transliterated twice, once from Latvian (Roman) to Russian (Cyrllic) then back to Latvian (Roman).

1958Folk Costume Fold-Outs1959Soviet Estonia19591960Along Latvia's Roads1960Soviet Rīga
© 1998 – 2026, S.A. & P.J.Vecrumba | contact [at] latvians.com   Latvians.com on Facebook Peters on Bluesky↗ Peters on Twitter↗ Silvija on Bluesky↗ Terms of Use Privacy Policy Facebook ToS Web presence by Dynamic Resources