it took one hundred and ten years. And here all the same unforgettable “the bronze horseman” that once delighted the inhabitants of Riga, now the heart of the city, with the territory of a private Villa on the Avenue Dzintaru in Jurmala again peers into the “cut window” into Old Europe.
While in some European provinces, sad to say local observers, the memory of compatriots are trying to erase the military merits of an invincible Russia, in the Latvian countryside is still preserved lovers of historical record.
by the Way, former Vice-mayor of the Latvian capital Sergey Dolgopolov explained at the time the author of these lines that were considered in the beginning of the century even a question about the installation of the monument to Peter the great near the Cathedral, but – no luck. And in the end, the businessman Yevgeny Gomberg, money which he was re-established, erected a monument on the territory of the enterprise, and in July this year moved the sculpture in the backyard of her Jurmala residence.
Local observers had to evaluate a Regal gesture of the owner, stating that the sculpture can now admire not only the residents but also guests of Jurmala. And corrosive historians even quote the former President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, in which the opening in Riga about 20 years ago of the monument to field Marshal Barclay de Tolly, donated to the city by Eugene Gomberg, insisted that “every private person has the right to establish obelisks generals in his private garden or his house.”
And yet I recall, in this regard, long walks at the walls of the famous Duomo. Before entering his office, always loved to look at the building on the opposite side of the street Palasta. This is where the Emperor more than three hundred years ago (at the suggestion of Prince Boris Sheremetev) and settled, gently paying the bills to the former owner of the castle of ratman Rennenberg 5 000 CZK.
incidentally, half a century in this building by order of the Emperor Alexander III was opened first in the province of Livonia of the Russian real school. And, in honor of the successful conclusion of the war, Peter was put in Riga elm, and laid the first landscape project in the territory of the Empire.
by the Way, it is useful to recall too preoccupied Russophobia that the Russian power at all debt for the most part was not found. Russia has always been not only invincible, but also from time immemorial rich and in his own merciful. But whatever it was, but the fact remains: Peter, beating the Swedes, even their the loser does not left. He paid the Swedish Queen Ulrike Eleonora Treaty of Nystad two million efimkov.
of Course, the Queen was in seventh heaven. Because at that time it was equal to the annual budget of Sweden. And for St. Petersburg it was truly a gesture of Croesus, after all, Polowine annual budget of Russia.
So for those who like on the coast of the Baltic sea sometimes to count money in someone else’s pocket, it would be possible to show, in particular, and this paid the bill. And to provide, as is customary today in expensive hotels: all inclusive.
