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How was Christmas celebrated?
Christmas in Latgale is more associated with church festivals. Usually, people got up early. The mass at the church was always held in the morning. I don’t know where from the tradition has …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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How was Jāņi [Līgo, Midsummer night festival] celebrated?
You know, Jāņi was celebrated also during the soviet times, though all that present-day, I would call it, the modern Latvian propaganda – that Jāņi could not be celebrated, that it was not …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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What food and drinks were offered at wedding?
Weddings have always been important events in Latgale. There used to be two types of weddings. The more refined ones were called – for two tables, when the wedding began at the bride’s …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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Have you ever heard and experienced such a phenomenon as večerinka [spending evenings together]?
I have heard about vecherinkas from my parents, who told me about the first Latvian times when they were young. Then such events were organized on Saturdays or on public holidays as open-air parties …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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Joint work. How did it go? What is the situation now?
It was so. I’ll start from the end. A man once asked me: “What do you like most in joint work?” For me the best thing in the joint work is the moment when the hostess says: “ …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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Did people in Soviet times experience any problems related church attendance?
People have problems with attending church at present, too. People themselves create problems. As far as I have observed, one man told me about a great sinner, that now the most active churchgoers …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Arvid Ratnieks
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Have you ever heard any tales, stories, or legends that are related to great events of European history?
In my childhood, a great event was the one that had ended some twenty years before, that was World War II. And here the honourable interviewer is late for some fourteen years. If he had …
Categories: Wartime, Arvid Ratnieks
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About father and World War I
Story-teller: “You see, we were young country people. We worked in the country. How much did we have? Only some twenty hectares. And, and we had to work from the early childhood, we were used …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: First childhood memory, Helena Bilinska
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The song holiday in Daugavpils and input of military forces of the USSR to Latvia in 1940
“On our way back from the Song festival, when we were going back, but we, being at the festival, did not know that Russians had entered Latvia in the year forty. We were at Mežvidi, on, on our …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Beginning of the war, Helena Bilinska
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The Church choir and preparation for a general holiday of a song and dance in Daugavpils in 1940
Story-teller: “I liked to sing. You see, in the countryside, there was nothing else, we went to church. And in the church there was an educated organ player, he had arrived from Riga, right …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Confessional and international relations, Helena Bilinska
