Jan 18, 2013

Latvia Souvenir Cover on "150th Birthday of Rūdolfs Blaumanis"



Souvenir Cover
紀念封
Envelope Comemorativo


Latvia

150th Birthday of Rūdolfs Blaumanis

Date of Issue : 5 January 2013

Rūdolfs Blaumanis, who was the pioneer of drama and the novella genre in Latvian literature, was born on 1 January 1863. He lived in the Braki homestead of Ērgļi parish, where a museum of the prose writer and playwright is now housed.

The most popular works of Rūdolfs Blaumanis include the novellas Raudupiete, Salna pavasarī, Purva bridējs, Nāves ēnā; the plays Trīnes grēki, Ļaunais gars, Pazudušais dēls, Skroderdienas Silmačos, Indrāni; the poems Tālavas taurētājs, Ziema, Vēl tu nezini, Kā zagšus.

Rūdolfs Blaumanis died with tuberculosis in the Takaharju sanatorium in Finland on September 4, 1908. The writer was brought to Latvia and buried in the Ērgļi cemetery.

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