Monument "Grieving mother" at Inčukalns Cemetery of Honour
Memorial site

Located: Inčukalns district, Inčukalns, Miera street, Inčukalns cemetery.

The monument was unveiled on July 16, 1944. The monument was discovered after the death of K. Zāle. Inscription: On the partisans who fell to the Fatherland in 1941 (restored). The monument was restored on November 5, 2020. The monument was restored with the support of Inčukalns County Council. Restorer artist Igor Dobichin.

Events: “1940. On June 17, Latvia was occupied by the USSR. On June 14, 1941, deportations took place. On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked the USSR and parts of the Wehrmacht entered Latvia. The Red Army and its supporters withdrew. In many places in Latvia - including Ragana, Sēja and Inčukalns - former guards and patriotic young people organized to protect their homes and hurry to expel the Soviet occupiers. When the flag of the Free State of Latvia was hoisted again on July 1, 1941 in the sown parish "Ziediņi", special units of the Red Army at the Northern Cemetery shot the owner of this house - 39-year-old Elza Viša, but on the border of Sēja and Krimulda parish her mother - 64-year-old Elza Martinovu. The residents of the area caused even more hatred and outrage, and they began to gather in the popular resistance movement and form self-defense units, which were also called the first partisans (the leader of the Inčukalns group was Maksis Cālītis). Soldiers and officers who had escaped from the Litene military camp or were released from the so-called Latvian territorial corps also joined the fighters of the county. An armed clash with the Reds took place a few days later, on July 4, seven soldiers and the son of Ragana's pharmacist Pēteris Prašķēvičs fell. In addition, Jānis Porietis, a 17-year-old student of the Rēzekne Teachers' Institute, was injured and captured in the Battle of Ragana and tortured, shot and buried near Straupe.

Here in Inčukalns, a common grave of the brothers was excavated, to which coffins made of white unplaned boards were brought in eight horse-drawn carriages to lay the fallen heroes in their homeland. A few months later, already during the German occupation, a monument was erected in the cemetery by Kārlis Zāle (from 1939 until the end of his life on February 19, 1942, due to a serious illness, the genius Latvian sculptor chose Inčukalns as his residence) - the image of a mourning mother over a rose lap. In the 1950s, local Communist Party activists blew up the monument. The monument was damaged and stagnant until the Awakening, when in the late 80's more and more people became interested and talked about the events of July 4, 1941 and called for the restoration of the monument to Charles Hall. Such a demand was made at the meeting of people and power convened at Inčukalns Primary School on September 8, 1988, which was attended not only by Inčukalns residents, but also by residents of nearby parishes, as well as members of the Environmental Protection Club and LNNK from Riga.

In The people of Inčukalns - Teodors Ildens, Arvīds Blaus, Pēteris Vorfolomējevs -… and many other patriotic people actively participated in the restoration of the monument. On July 4, 1989, in a solemn ceremony, the reborn noble and sad tabby was consecrated by Pastor Vaira Bitena. ”