"Laukgaļi" houses, the residence of the writer Kārlis Skalbe
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“Laukgaļi” in Jūrkalne parish, the place where writer Kārlis Skalbe stayed in October - November 1944, while waiting for a refugee boat to Sweden.
Writer Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945) was a member of the Latvian Provisional National Council and the Latvian People's Council, a deputy of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of Latvia and the 1st and 4th Saeima. During the German occupation, he was the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Latvju Mēnešraksts", one of the signatories of the LCP memorandum of March 17, 1944.
On November 11, 1944, she fled to Sweden. She died in 1945 in Stockholm.
Used sources and references:
R. Legzdiņš. From Vecpiebalga to Stockholm. Reflections on Kārlis Skalbis. Letters and speeches. Stockholm: Daugava, 1957.
I. Daukste-Silasproģe. Kārlis Skalbe's refugee journey to Sweden: From individual experience to collective memories, Letonica, 2019, No. 40, pp. 61-76.
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