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Kārlis Štrāls

Died in 1970

Kārlis Štrāls was born on 25 November 1880 in Stukmaņi, near Bebruleja, into a family of Daugava rafters and leather craftsmen. Qualified as a teacher in 1909 as an external candidate, he edited the newspaper Plēsums and the review Dzelme in 1906 and 1907, with Blaumanis as his mentor. An officer in Galicia, wounded twice in 1915 and decorated with the Order of Vladimir, he took refuge in the Kuban in 1918 and returned to Riga in 1920. Decorated with the Order of the Three Stars and settled in Pļaviņas, he died there on 15 March 1970.

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