Riga Did Not Attend the Cemetery Summit: The Life Teaching Took Place Without the Capital of Latvia 0 8

This year, the theme of the event is "Life Teaching: Cemeteries as Educational and Cultural Heritage." It seems that the Agency did not need to attend such an event.

However, if we look closely, the Riga Monument Agency services and maintains the Brothers' Cemetery. It also conducts restoration work in the garden-park ensemble of the "Great (or as it is commonly called - 'Old German') Cemetery."

Of course, it was unlikely that there was much sense for 12 officials to travel to Turin, but sending a couple of representatives from Riga would probably not have hurt.

But against the backdrop of the political scandals that have erupted, well-seasoned with opposition criticism, the leadership of the Agency and the city declared the trip impractical and wasteful. Travel expenses could be spent more wisely.

Otto Titz.

Although it would definitely be necessary to send an employee of "Rigas Meži," Mikhail Parakhin, to the aforementioned conference, who cleans cemeteries during working hours and, in his free time, at his own expense restores and conserves damaged monuments of notable individuals:

• the knight of the Order of Lāčplēsis (posthumously), Baltic-German lieutenant Otto Titz, who died defending Riga during the Bermontiade,
• the Righteous Among the Nations, Doctor of Philosophy, Baltic-German politician Paul Shiman, and other now-forgotten heroes.

Currently, elements of the tombstone of Major General Georg von Kornrumpf, accidentally discovered by researcher Andrei Gusachenko from the Latvian Institute of History, are being restored at the Yakovlev Cemetery.