Rainis (Jānis Pliekšāns)

Jānis Pliekšāns, known as Rainis, was born on 11 September 1865 at the Varslavāni farm, in the parish of Dunava. After studying law in Saint Petersburg, he edited the daily Dienas Lapa from 1891 to 1895, was arrested in 1897 and deported to Pskov and then to the Vyatka province, where he translated Goethe's Faust. After the failure of 1905, he lived at Castagnola, near Lugano, with Aspazija, and returned only on 4 April 1920. Director of the National Theatre, then Minister of Education, he died in Majori in September 1929.

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