Andrejs Pumpurs

Andrejs Pumpurs was born on 22 September 1841 in the parish of Lieljumprava, on the left bank of the Daugava, into a poor family of three children. After three years at the Lielvārde church school, he worked the land and steered rafts with his father; his first poems date from his years in Piebalga, from 1867 to 1872. In 1876 he left Moscow to fight alongside the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, became an officer in the Russian army and from 1895 served in the quartermaster's department at Dvinsk. He died in Riga on 6 July 1902.

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• PoetryBearslayerLāčplēsisAndrejs Pumpurs · 1888Literature