Rūdolfs Blaumanis

Rūdolfs Blaumanis was born in Ērgļi, in Vidzeme, on 1 January 1863, the son of a manor cook and a chambermaid. Trained at the German commercial school in Riga and a clerk at the Koknese estate, he wrote for the Zeitung für Stadt und Land, then for the Latvian newspapers Dienas Lapa, Mājas Viesis and Latvija. His short stories, including Nāves ēnā in 1899, depict peasant life. In St Petersburg from 1901 to 1904, he ran the satirical section of the Pēterburgas avīzes. He died in Finland on 4 September 1908 and is buried in Ērgļi.

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• TheatreSkroderdienas SilmačosRūdolfs Blaumanis · 1902not translated into EnglishLiterature