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Eduards Smiļģis

1886–1966Local figure

Eduards Smiļģis

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

  • Created here

    Dailes Theatre

    The theatre’s founder championed the idea of a new purpose-built home for his company.

  • Lived here

    Eduards Smiļģis Theatre Museum

    The Dailes Theatre founder designed the house according to his own vision and made it his home.

  • Created here

    New Riga Theatre

    He founded Dailes Theatre here in 1920 and directed the company during its formative decades.

  • Burial place

    Rainis Cemetery

    One of the main historical cemeteries in Riga.

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