Anno 1879: Russian Embassy building in central Riga, Latvia. February 26, 2023
Architect Johann Daniel Felsko. Eclecticism. Former house of the merchant Jakšs. The Soviet embassy in the inter-war period Republic of Latvia, then Soviet Latvia's Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Culture and an embassy again. In June 1940, Andrei Vishinsky, the Kremlin's plenipotentiary conductor of sovietization measures in Latvia and Deputy Chairman of the USSR People's Commissars who formed the first Latvian Soviet government, addressed a pro-Soviet crowd from the balcony of this building.
Anno 1879: Russian Embassy building in central Riga, Latvia. February 26, 2023
Architect Johann Daniel Felsko. Eclecticism. Former house of the merchant Jakšs. The Soviet embassy in the inter-war period Republic of Latvia, then Soviet Latvia's Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Culture and an embassy again. In June 1940, Andrei Vishinsky, the Kremlin's plenipotentiary conductor of sovietization measures in Latvia and Deputy Chairman of the USSR People's Commissars who formed the first Latvian Soviet government, addressed a pro-Soviet crowd from the balcony of this building.