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Monuments and memorials in Riga

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There are many monuments and memorials in the Latvian capital Riga.[1]

List of monuments and memorials

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Description Date Sculptor Picture Notes
Monument to Filippo Paulucci 1851
Monument to Rainis 1965 Kārlis Zemdega
Monument to Johann Gottfried Herder
Monument to Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Copy of the now lost 1913 sculpture; a new monument was created by the initiative and by donations of local businessman J. Grombergs in 2001
Kalpaks monument
Statue of George and Cecile Armitstead 2006 Andris Vārpa
Pushkin Statue 2009 Alexander Tartynov
Monument to Kārlis Padegs
Monument to Mstislav Keldysh
Gravestone of Baltic-German Mailinger family
In the Great Cemetery
Gravestone of A. and R. Hartvigs
In Matisa Cemetery
Andrejs Pumpurs gravestone 1929 Kārlis Zāle
In Lielie Cemetery
Monument to Jānis Čakste
In Meža Cemetery
Monument to Lielais Kristaps
Freedom Monument 1935 Kārlis Zāle
Ernests Štālbergs
Monument to the soldiers of 1919 1937 Kārlis Zāle
In Sudrabkalniņš memorial gardens
Vērmanes Garden Memorial 1829
Russian Revolution (1905) monument
In the Grīziņkalns area
Latvian Rifleman monument
Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders 1985 Lev Bukovsky [lv; ru]
Aivars Gulbis [lv; ru]
Removed on 25 August 2022
Monument to Bremen Town Musicians
Torņakalns Memorial to Victims of Communist Terror 1990 Ojārs Feldbergs [lv]
In Torņakalns Station

References

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  1. ^ (in Latvian) O. Spārītis Rīgas pieminekļi un dekoratīvā tēlniecība. Rīga, 2007, 204 pages ISBN 9984260240 ISBN 9789984260242
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