About Daugavgriva fortress

“(..) 1916. In the spring of the night from the third day of Easter to the fourth, the German "Zeppelin" had constantly flown over the detained area of Riga and arrived unexpectedly over the fortress. The guard at the Hapaka River bridge had seen him at the very last moment. The old soldier of the Vologda družina, holding the same "bad" and for fear and anxiety forgot to announce to the chief of the guard and time to raise an alarm, but recovered only when the first bombs, presumably sent to the bridge, began to burst a hundred, fifty steps away from the post. In the material fields of Baloža and P. Bērziņš tree factories, shattering and destroying some sons of sons and blankets. It was a bright moonlight. Light fog low over the bay of the Daugava and the surrounding meadows. The clock was already over at midnight, when the first bomb blasts alarmed the fortress and the surrounding area. A few minutes later, the fortress's radiators began to work, and the bombings were accompanied by the sound of cannon shots and shattering shrapnel, exacerbated by the general silence of the night and the echo in the ramparts of the fortress. After ten or fifteen minutes, everything calmed down, only the batteries of Ķemeri district could still be heard working, presumably accompanied by the flying "Zeppelin". On the second morning, a closer look at the battle area and the damage showed that the latter was negligible. In addition to the already mentioned torn and shattered boards of boards and blankets, the railway dam in the port dam was destroyed, the port dam itself was damaged and that was all, but two unexploded "Zeppelin" bombs had fallen to the ground and remained there. The bombs had to be taken out of the ground and destroyed, because if they were left to their fate, they could explode at any moment and cause great damage and misfortune, especially to those who lay in Bolderaja. (..) ”