Brothers' Cemetery
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Brothers' Cemetery or Cemetery of the Brethren, also sometimes referred to in English as the Common Graves or simply as the Military Cemetery, is a military cemetery and national monument in Riga, cap
The main burial ground of the cemetery
Sculpture of a horseman
Sculpture at Brāļu Kapi
A grave marker marking grave of an unknown soldier; about 200 of soldiers buried in the cemetery were never identified
Kārlis Zāle
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Zāle was born in Mažeikiai, but grew up in Liepāja. After training in Russia at the Kazan Art School under Alexander Matveyev and in Germany, he returned to Riga in 1923, where he both worked in sculp
Brothers' Cemetery
…gardener Andrejs Zeidaks, who started to work on it already during the war. The memorial was built between 1924 and 1936, to designs by the sculptor Kārlis Zāle, many of whose sculptures feature prominently, the architects Pēteris Feders, Aleksandrs Birzenieks, P. Kundziņš, the sculptors J. Cirulis and F…
Zāle in 1935
Main gate, Brothers' Cemetery (Riga)
Liberty atop the Freedom Monument