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Rezekne is the seventh largest city in Latvia and the cultural capital of Latgale, one of the country's four historical regions. It is located in a beautiful valley between the two highest Latvian mountains and between the two largest lakes in Latvia.

The city has preserved ancient architecture; there are especially many churches and temples of different faiths. Rezekne is considered one of the most multinational and cosmopolitan cities in Latvia, this can be seen here both in the architecture and in the variety of national dishes and cultural events.

How to get to Rezekne

Rezekne can be reached by car, bus, train or plane.

• by train

The Latvia Express train runs daily from Moscow to Rezekne. It departs at 17:05 from Riga Station and arrives at Rezekne-2 station at 05:17 the next day. The travel time is just over 13 hours, the fare is from 70 EUR one way. The train to Rezekne from St. Petersburg departs every day from Vitebsk Station (train No. 083A, “St. Petersburg - Riga”), it takes 13 hours 12 minutes, the fare starts from 5378 RUB one way. Prices on the page are as of March 2019.

• by bus

From St. Petersburg, a night bus departs daily in the evenings (around 10:30-10:50 pm) to Rezekne from the Vitebsky station and from the city bus station No. 2. The journey will take about 11 hours, excluding traffic jams and border crossings, ticket price - from 25 EUR . From Moscow, buses to Rezekne run daily from the Tushinskaya metro station, departure time 21:15-21:45. Ticket price starts from 45 EUR one way; you will have to spend about 10 hours on the road, excluding traffic jams and border crossings.

• by plane

The closest airport to the city is in Pskov (about 190 km from Rezekne), but there are few flights there and they are rarely convenient, so it’s easier to fly to Riga. The road from Riga to Rezekne can take 5 hours depending on transport. The fastest way is the Latvia Express train, which goes to Moscow; the journey will take about 3 hours.

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Rezekne Hotels

Rezekne is a small town, and there are only about 20 hotels, including apartments. There are two 3* hotels in the city, which are considered the best in terms of prices and quality of service; this is where most tourists try to stay. The first one, Kolonna Hotel Reserne, located on the river bank, within walking distance of city attractions and train and bus stations. It occupies an old building, the facade of which has been preserved from the 30s. 20th century, and the hotel restaurant serves good Latvian cuisine. Second hotel - Latgale, it is located in the very center of Rezekne, decorated in a classic style and offers simply good European service - no frills, but no complaints either. Accommodation prices in both hotels are approximately the same - from 35-40 EUR per day for a double room.

Guest houses are very popular in Rezekne, many of them have their own territory with a small garden and a barbecue area; the rooms usually have nothing extra: a bed, a shower, a bedside table and air conditioning - but they are clean and quiet. Staying in a guest house will cost from 20 EUR per day for a room for two.

Shops in Rezekne

Rezekne cannot be called the capital of shopping even with a stretch, but you can spend money here, for example, it is worth visiting the central market. In rainy weather it is covered with a roof, but usually it operates outdoors. There you can buy fresh products that local farmers bring from all over the area, as well as handmade souvenirs and even clothes. The market is open every day from 7:00 to 16:00, and on weekends and holidays from 9:00 to 18:00.

There are several shopping centers in the city center, but they are small and the selection there is not very diverse. However, some popular European clothing brands are represented in these malls, and prices are lower than the European average.

Sights and entertainment in Rezekne

In Rezekne you can see interesting ancient architecture. Most of the buildings were destroyed almost to the ground during the Second World War, but some have survived to this day. The city has many monuments, as well as Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches - representatives of almost all faiths live here.

The city's most famous landmark is the ruins Rositten Castle on the mountain. The castle was built in 1285, becoming the first stone structure in Livonia. It was attacked and conquered more than once; the Russian Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible also visited here at one time. In 1656, the fortress was finally destroyed by the Swedes, and since then it has not been restored. Today there is a park around the ruins, where there is a restaurant and a summer theater.

There are two famous monuments in Rezekne. The first one is Latgale Mara, a monument to the liberation of Latgale, it is located in the very center of the city and is considered its symbol. The monument is dedicated to the participants in the battles for the freedom of Latvia in 1920 and carries the idea of ​​uniting the people in defense of their native country. Second - monument to Anton Kukoys, a famous Latvian writer, artist, director and actor, is located in front of the Latgale Cultural and Historical Museum. By the way, the museum itself is also worthy of attention: the exhibition tells about the history of Latgale, and the most interesting thing here is the collection of unique Latgale ceramics (more than 2000 exhibits in total).

Rezekne churches

One of the most beautiful cathedrals in the city - Cathedral of the Heart of Jesus. It is located in the historical center of the city on Latgale Street and is decorated with colored stained glass windows and carved altars.

Evangelical Lutheran Church Holy Trinity was originally built in 1886 from wood, and then, when the wood fell into disrepair, it was rebuilt in red brick in the 1930s. At one time, its building housed a film show, and today this church again hosts services and concerts of sacred and classical music - the acoustics within these walls are simply amazing.

Rezekne green synagogue- the only wooden synagogue in the country that managed to survive the Second World War. Today it is operational, and in addition, here you can see an exhibition dedicated to the history of Jews in Latgale and Jewish traditions.

Located next to Latgale Mara orthodox cathedral Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, not far from it - Roman Catholic Church of the Sufferings of the Mother of God, and a cemetery was built at the Old Believer cemetery Old Believer prayer house St. Nicholas, where the largest bell in the country is located.

Events and holidays

Despite the fact that Rezekne is a small town and does not deserve the title of the cultural center of the country, there are many interesting original holidays and other entertainment events here all year round.

• April - pottery masters gather in Rezekne for Potter's Days - exhibitions and sales of ceramics and firing master classes are held throughout the city.
• May is the time of the SevenHills music and art festival and the well-known Night of Museums.
• July - GOSTI ethnofestival.
• August - film lovers come to the international short film festival.
• September - Days of Baroque Music and the Step by Step Theater Festival.

One of the main cultural centers of modern Rezekne is the Latgale GORS Embassy. Life is constantly bustling here: the best concerts, exhibitions, theatrical performances, film screenings, lectures and various events for children take place. Another popular event venue is the Zeimuls Center for Creative Services, which hosts many creative and educational programs for young people. This building is impossible to miss thanks to its unusual shape and green roof.

Rezekne(Latvian Rēzekne, Latvian Rēzne), until 1893 - Rositten(German) Rositten), in 1893-1917 - Rezhitsa(Russian doref. Rezhitsa) is a city in the east of Latvia, the seventh city in the country by population. It is the administrative center of the Rezekne region, but is not part of it. Rezekne is one of the most important transport hubs in Latvia, as well as the economic, cultural and educational center of Eastern Latvia.

Geography

Rezekne is located on the northern slope of the Latgale Upland, in the center of Eastern Latvia, for which it is often called the “heart of Latgale”. The city is located near the borders of neighboring states:

• 50 km from Russia (Grebneva border point), St. Petersburg-Warsaw highway
• 116 km from Lithuania (Smelin)
• 127 km from Belarus (Urbany)
• 155 km from Estonia (Ciruli)

Story

On site until the 13th century Castle Hill there was a settlement of Latgalians. In 1285, Master of the Livonian Order Wilhelm von Schauerburg built a well-fortified castle here from large moraine boulders, calling it Rositten.

The fortress was repeatedly attacked by Russians, Lithuanians, and Poles. By the 17th century, the castle was so destroyed that it could not be restored. It was only in the 20th century that a park was laid out near the ruins and a summer theater and restaurant were built.

Since 1582, as a result of the Livonian War, Rositten became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In 1772 the city became part of the Russian Empire. Initially, it was assigned to the Pskov province, in 1777 - to the Polotsk province, and since 1802 the city became one of the district centers of the Vitebsk province. Thus, at the end of the 19th century the term “Vitebsk Latvians” came into use.

The first city plan in 1778 was approved by Catherine II. The city began to grow, but judging by historical documents from 1808, " There is only one street in it; there is not a single artisan, no fairs, no supplies of life; There are 754 residents there, of which 536 are Jews..." The city began to develop intensively only after the construction of the St. Petersburg - Warsaw highway (1836), and later the St. Petersburg - Warsaw (1860) and Vindava - Rybinsk (1904) railway lines.

In 1897, the city had 10,795 inhabitants, including Jews - 6,442, Russians - 2,444, Poles - 895, Latvians - 828.

From the end of the 18th century until 1941, Jews played a major role in the formation of the city, the peak of migration among whom to the Vitebsk province occurred during the Russian Empire. From the Jewish Encyclopedia: “In 1913, Jews owned a pharmacy, all 6 warehouses for pharmaceutical goods, all 5 bakeries, 4 hotels, both photo workshops, all 3 hairdressers, unity. coffee shop, all 5 watch workshops, tavern, approx. 200 shops and stores in Rezekne (including 55 grocery, all 15 haberdashery, all 12 tobacco, all 23 manufacturing). All 6 timber merchants and units were Jews. cattle dealer in R.; one Jew rented out furnished rooms...<…>In the 1920-30s. Branches of various Jewish parties and organizations operated in the city. There were 11 synagogues, including Hasidic ones.” After the war, several hundred Jews returned to Rezekne and recreated the community.

In 1920, following the results of the Riga Peace Treaty, the lands of Latgale became part of the Republic of Latvia.

From 1940 to 1991, Latvia was part of the USSR as one of the union republics. The Second World War destroyed almost all the buildings of the main street of Rezekne at that time - Bolshaya Liutinska, as well as most of the churches and administrative buildings. In fact, the city was destroyed. More than 15 thousand Latvian civilians, including residents of Rezekne, were shot not far from the city border - in the Anchupani forest.

In the post-war years, Rezekne began to develop rapidly thanks to the opening of a number of industrial enterprises of national significance and an increase in transit freight traffic at the railway junction. In 1991, the city's population was 43,032 people (compared to 13.3 thousand in 1939).

In Rezekne, something has been preserved from the ancient Jewish quarter. Its main building was a synagogue, built in 1845 using donations. The building was not a temple, so it did not deserve luxury, but in Rezekne the miserable position of the synagogue was explained by the material constraints of the Jewish population. With the support of the Norwegian Embassy in Latvia, in January 2016, the only wooden synagogue in the Baltics that survived World War II was completely restored, including the reconstruction of the interior.

According to one of the legends, near the Anchupan hills near Rezekne in ancient times, a bloody battle between the Lithuanian princes and the Novgorodians took place, from which the Slavic name “Rezitsa” supposedly came from. In 1949, swords and chain mail were found in a quarry near the city.

The settlement, which deteriorated after the destruction of the Livonian castle in 1656, with transportation at the garden ford and a tavern, often changed its name. The Germans called it Rositten, during Polish rule it was called Zizhitsa. The Russians called it Rezitsa, then Rezhitsa. The Latvian name Rezekne was assigned to the city at the beginning of the 20th century.

The first Rezhitsa guidebook by Ivan Osipovich Venediktov, published in 1911, said that the climate here is moderate and healthy, thanks to which many summer residents come here from St. Petersburg for the summer. There were many gardens in the city. The main streets of the city were Bolshaya Lyutsinskaya, which was considered a shopping center, and Bolshaya Nikolaevskaya, on which government offices were located.

There were 438 acres of city land in total. The number of residential buildings is 2500, of which 180 are stone and 2320 are wooden. There are 58 streets, they were illuminated by 120 simple and 16 kerosene lanterns. There was a hospital in the city and private pharmacies. In those days, Rezhitsa was famous for the brewery of H. M. Manteuffel, the tannery of I. M. Levin, weaving workshops, a soap factory, the wheel ointment plant, the mill of G. A. Leshchinsky, the production of carbonated water, bricks and tile products was established. There were two public baths, banks, offices, and printing houses functioned. A telephone with 71 subscribers connected Rezhitsa with the towns of Veliony and Varaklyany, as well as the largest estates of Rozentovo and Rikopol.

Cultural life was supported by the People's House with 214 seats, as well as a summer theater. The pride of the county was the city zemstvo fire brigade with its orchestra, which played in the park near the church on holidays. The city had a men's gymnasium, a city school, a women's pro-gymnasium, a vocational school, a trade school, three parish schools, a parish school, a Jewish men's and women's school, and a Talmud-Torah school. 11 doctors practiced in the city, including the now widely known N.A. Tynyanov (father of the writer Yu. Tynyanov).

Of the 19 thousand 625 people, 8894 were registered as Jews, 6149 people as Catholic Latvians and Poles, 4431 as Russians, 140 as Germans and Lutheran Latvians.

The city's income and expenses were 30,985 rubles 89 kopecks. (for apartments then they charged: 6-10 rooms - 300-1000 rubles, 2-6 rooms - 60-300 rubles, 1-2 rooms - up to 60 rubles. For an hour's ride in a covered carriage, the fee was 30 kopecks, theater ticket cost from 1 ruble 25 kopecks to 27 kopecks).

Cultural life

On September 1, 2012, the Center for Creative Services of Eastern Latvia “Zeimuļs” (“Pencil” - Latgalian language) opened its doors. Currently, it provides education based on interests within the framework of 82 programs for schoolchildren, youth and everyone. The initiator of the creation of the center was the Rezekne municipality. Investments in construction and improvement amounted to 6.16 million lats (8.76 million euros).

On May 30, 2013, the Latgale Embassy “GORS” (“gors” translated from Latgalian means “spirit”), the first concert and cultural complex built from scratch since the restoration of Latvian independence, opened in Rezekne. It has two acoustic concert halls: with 1000 seats (3000 standing places) and with 220 seats (1000 standing places), as well as three halls for seminars, conferences and corporate events, a musical instrument store, restaurants of Latgalian and foreign cuisine, a tourist center . The architecture of the building is designed in a laconic Scandinavian style. The creation of the center took place within the framework of the EU-funded projects “East Latvian Multifunctional Center in Rezekne” and “Construction of a pedestrian street and East Latvian Multifunctional Center in the underdeveloped areas of Rezekne”. Investments in the project amounted to 10.5 million lats (about 15 million euros).

Since 2013, the Open Place International Short Film Festival has been held in Rezekne, which is accompanied by a wide program of concerts and meetings between artists and directors with audiences. Guests of the festival were Ivar Kalnins, Valdis Pelsh, Tatyana Abramova, Maxim Averin, Anna Bolshova, Valery Eremenko, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Natalya Bochkareva, Honored Artist of Russia Olga Kabo and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Valery Barinov.

Tourism

Rezekne has joined the Latgale Culinary Heritage Program, the goal of which is to preserve and popularize the cuisine traditions of the region, which includes Latgale and the Vitebsk region of Belarus. In December 2015, the Latgale Culinary Heritage Center won the “Best European Tourist Route” competition, or EDEN (European Destinations of Excellence).

Mineral water was mined in the vicinity of Rezekne, and there are producers of medicinal mud. The city is preparing to develop balneology, for which several hotels and hydropathic clinics will be built offering wellness and SPA services.

Among the attractions are:

• Ruins of the ancient German castle Rositten (1285)
• Latgale Cultural and Historical Museum (1861). It contains the most representative collection of pottery in Latgale, conducts many educational programs: “How bread is baked”, “All about milk”, “The Adventures of a Clay Lump”.
• Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1846)
• Rezekne Green Synagogue is the only wooden synagogue built in 1845 that has survived without any major changes to this day. Renovated in 2015 and reopened in January 2016. On Wednesdays and Saturdays you can get there for free and listen to the guide's story. The synagogue survived only because the Nazis used the building for their own needs during the war. Now there is an electronic exhibition in three languages ​​about the history of the Jewish community in Latgale from the 12th century to the present day. And on the ground floor, visitors will find an interactive story about the traditions and holidays of the Jewish people with an audio guide that can be downloaded via phone.
• Catholic Church (1936)
• Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity (1938)
• Cathedral of the Heart of Jesus (1888)
  • Feretron with a painting in the Church of the Heart of Jesus
• Old Believer prayer house of St. Nicholas (1895)
  • Ancient icon in the Old Believer prayer house
• Francis Trasuns Museum "Kolnasata"
• Rezekne burial ground
• Luznava estate is a center of art and culture, where chamber events and concerts take place
• A retro-style amusement park (Rainis Park) is nostalgic for childhood for older people. The park has preserved carousels, swings, and a train from Soviet times.
• The center of the Latgale spirit is the ethnographic tavern “Möls” on Latgale Street: a village inside the city, a storehouse of artifacts from different parts of Latgale. Here you can try Latgalian national cuisine, learn Latgalian songs and dances, get acquainted with the national culture and drink a glass of “Shmakovka” - vigorous local moonshine! The owner of Mols, Alexandrina Binduki, plans to arrange a courtyard with places for artisans.

If you travel from Moscow to Riga by train, the first stop after the border is Rezekne, a very serious city by Latvian standards (35 thousand inhabitants). With , poor and wild, it presents a noticeable contrast, and in the scale of its new buildings throughout the country it is second only to Riga and Ventspils. It is Rezekne, and not Daugavpils, that in modern Latvia is considered the capital of Latgale - and in general, not without reason.

A month and a half passed between my departure from and arrival in Rezekne, which I spent in Moscow, posting the Lithuanian series. The second time I crossed the Latvian border was by train, without stopping, passing through the town of Ludza (county Lucin) - perhaps even more interesting than Rezekne and Kraslava, but considered perhaps the most depressing in the country. There are two stations in Rezekne at opposite ends of the city: in the south Rezekne-1 of the Petersburg-Warsaw Railway (1862), in the north of Rezekne-2 of the Moscow-Vindava Railway (1900). Both were destroyed by the war and in their current form are almost typical Stalinist buildings. On a gloomy warm morning I got off at Rezekne-2:

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And I wandered to the center, which is about 2 kilometers from here - firstly, I didn’t have a centime in my pocket, and secondly, after a sleepless night on the train and the inevitable carriage conversations about “I was in Soviet times, oooooh!” I just wanted to find ground under my feet.

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Like most Latvian cities, Rezekne began with an order castle - founded in 1285, it was called Rositten, and in Slavic transcription Rezhitsa or Zhezhitsa, but the German name was official until 1893. However, unlike Kraslava, since 1773, as part of the Russian Empire, Rezhitsa was not a town, but a county town - in fact, the whole of Latgale consisted of three counties of the Vitebsk province - Dinaburg, Rezhitsa and Lucinsky. Like Dinaburg, Rezhitsa began to grow as a crossroads of railways that diverged from here to literally the 4 largest cities of the empire - St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw and Riga. For the same reason, Rezekne was heavily damaged by the war and its buildings are generally quite dull. The first even slightly remarkable house is a 10-minute walk from the station, most likely from the time of the First Republic:

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But in general, the following landscapes predominate in Rezekne - typically post-war:

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The house in the background, by the way, is occupied by the Latgale Cultural and Historical Museum (1959), as the design of the doors reminds us of. They say there is the largest collection of Latgalian folk ceramics, but in the morning the museum was closed:

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Nearby, without a signature, is a monument to Anton Kukois (1946-2007) - a Latgalian poet, playwright, director, actor and public figure (this has already been explained to me in the comments).

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This is already the main street of Atbrivoshanas (Liberation). Opposite the museum is again a typically post-war cultural center, now NK:

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And ahead is the main Unity Square of a characteristic oval shape, marked on the south side by the small Church of the Suffering of the Virgin Mary (1938). The age and small size, more typical of Courland or Vidzeme, should not be surprising - at the time of its construction it was a suburb.

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However, the new city center began to take shape even then: the main monument to Rezekne, the Latgale Mara (1939), stands on the square. The inscription on the pedestal is “United for Latvia”, implying reunification. Unlike Riga's Milda, Mara was unlucky - the original was demolished under the Soviets, and this is just a relic from the 1990s.

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Also on the square there is a multi-storey Soviet hotel "Latgale" and a small Nativity Church (1846) with a wooden dome, most similar to the temple of a destroyed cemetery. Logically, in the center of Rezhitsa there should have been a large Orthodox cathedral, which also did not survive Soviet times... however, this was really the only Orthodox church in the district of Rezhitsa, that is, apparently the majority of the local Russians (25% of the population) were from the Old Believers.

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A little to the side, behind the market...

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The triptych of churches is completed by the Trinity Church (1939) - and its age really indicates that we are still in Latgale.

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Beyond the square, the street slopes sharply into the valley of the Rezhitsa River. The most impressive county buildings of the city are in the tradition of the “Latgalian Baroque”: in general, a unique style, 9/10 examples of which are stylizations of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, and the originals of the 18th century are limited to a couple of churches of the type. Next to the houses is a monument to Yuri Tynyanov, who was born in Rezhitsa into the family of a Jewish doctor.

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Castle Street goes to the left to the ruins of the castle, and to the right is a park in a bend, marked with things like this with a map of the city:

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And the newly built East Latgale Cultural Center is amazing in size for a small town. Honestly, I can’t imagine this in a city of 30 thousand people in Russia, unless of course it’s Khanty-Mansiysk... however, this is not a trivial case for Latvia either. But as already mentioned, it was decided to make Rezekne in present-day Latvia the “cultural capital of Latgale” - if only because here the largest number of people (11 thousand, that is, a third of the population) are ethnic Latgalians (although 46% of the population here are Russians - more only in Daugavpils and Riga). That is, this building should become the center of the cultural life of an entire people:

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Behind the park is the city House of Culture (interesting - pre- or post-war?), the square in front of which is just being put in order:

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Houses near the park. Apparently, before the war it was a beautiful town:

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And beyond the river, Osvobozhdeniye Street leads to the Rezekne Hotel (aka Column) from the 1930s:

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She’s from the facade... however, we’ll return here at the end of the post:

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In the meantime, let's head to Rositten Castle, or rather, what little is left of it:

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For a detailed history of the castle, I refer you to Renata Rimsa. In short, the castle was the residence of the Vogt (roughly speaking, “district”), and it was subordinate to the commander not in Dinaburg (Daugavpils), but in Sigevald (Sigulda) - that is, Southern and Northern Latgale were different even then. Potential enemies surrounded the castle literally from all sides: in the west the Archbishopric of Riga, in the east the Bishopric of Dorpat (and the Order regularly fought with them), in the south Lithuania, in the east the Russian principalities and republics, so the castle was one of the most powerful, and hence not Preventive attacks were carried out several times - for example, in 1375 on Polotsk. In appearance, this is a “first generation” castle - both in Prussia and Livonia they began to build from brick only in the 14th century, and initially from wild stone. Behind the fence in the frame above is a small model of it (many Latvian castles are marked like this, including Old Dinaburg):

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However, Rositten took a severe blow in the Livonian War (1558) and never recovered. Moreover, Rezitsa, unlike Kraslava, did not have influential owners, so the fortress was never replaced by a manor. In subsequent centuries, the castle was torn down into stone, and now only small pieces of it remain on a steep, flat-topped hill. The barn below is probably made of the same stones:

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The most noticeable fragment is the gate arch. The wall that separated the convention from the forburg is clearly visible. In neighboring Ludza, the castle is much better preserved, and in principle, from the descriptions it seems more interesting.

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Here I was more impressed than the ruins themselves by the new building of the Center for Creativity and Services "Karandash" erected next to them. I don’t know why such a name, but among the services I noticed a cafe, most likely with a national bias:

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In the background you can see the Latgale Hotel on Liberation Square, while the Pencil is one of the most interesting new buildings I have ever seen. In general, modern architecture in Latvia is much weaker than in Lithuania - but here, it must be admitted, the Latvians have surpassed the Lithuanians, and in their field - a fusion of high-tech with ethnography:

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I especially liked the earthen roof:

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A second bridge leads from the castle across the river, marked with a “flood scale” below (not included in the frame, of course):

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And behind the bridge you find yourself in the very heart of the district Rezhitsa, in an area that clearly formed before the Moscow-Vindavo railway crossed the Warsaw-Petersburg railway. Red brick buildings typical of the Vitebsk region with a clear stamp of the Jewish past:

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The main Latgale street is parallel to the river and starts right at the Rezekne hotel. It first received its current name in the interwar period, and was previously called Bolshaya Lyutsinskaya. The cinema on the right seems to be Soviet.

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The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1897-1902) is one of the largest in Latvia:

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Nearby, on Kraslavskaya Street (visible from Latgalskaya) a boarded up synagogue (1909) has been preserved - one of the fragments, all the really bright monuments of which burned down during the war. Jews made up 62% of the population in Rezhitsa - one of the highest figures in the empire.

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I really regret that I read the book “Old Belief of Latgale” (bought in Daugavpils) after the second trip, and not before - otherwise I would have known about the Rezhitsa Old Believer cemetery, which was almost the center of Latgale Old Belief. There is one of the most beautiful and oldest (1860s) prayer houses in this region, the richest and most characteristic tombstones (including golbtsy and “domovins” - grave sarcophagi with gable roofs), before the war there was an icon-painting workshop that supplied the whole of Latgale with canonical icons , there is a museum of the Old Believers... This is perhaps the most interesting attraction of the city. And I missed it!

37. photo by A. Eglitis, from the official website of the city of Rezekne.

Along Latgale we return to the hotel "Rezekne":

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On the square in front of the gray department store building (Soviet?) there is a small pre-war-looking autoport. I was delighted: from the countries. scraps of which went to the USSR in the 1940s, bus stations were built only by Finland, they are not even in Prussia (although maybe there were in “mainland” Germany?), it seems like there are still a couple of them in Lithuania... But alas, in Latvia This is not a pre-war era - it’s just that the architectural tradition of the First Republic lived here back in the 1940-50s, parallel to the Stalinist era:

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In today's Latvia, autoports are almost always combined with train stations. In Rezekne it formally operates - but the building is locked, the drivers have tickets. Having learned that the nearest bus to Jekabpils was still 3 hours away, and I had seen almost everything in the city (except for the prayer house, which, as already mentioned, I stupidly didn’t know about!), I exchanged euros for lats on the ground floor of the department store, had breakfast with what I bought there pies, and decided to hitchhike, for which purpose he took the first intercity bus to the highway (it’s about five kilometers on foot).

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Finally - the military memorial between the bus station and the Rezekne hotel. There is also the Rezekne 1 train station nearby, but visually it is a typical post-war Stalinist building, so I neglected going to it:

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Another house in the Latgalian Baroque style. The sky, as you can see, is clearing up:

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In the next part - about the town of Varaklyany, where I ended up completely unplanned.

Geographical encyclopedia

- (Rēzekne) (until 1893 Rositten, until 1917 Rezhitsa), a city (from 1773) in Latvia, on the river. Rezekne. Railway junction. 42 thousand inhabitants (1995). Mechanical engineering and metalworking, food industry; flax mill and other enterprises. Museum of Local Lore... ... encyclopedic Dictionary

Rezekne- city, district center, Latvia. Since the Middle Ages, the Germanized form of the name Rositten has been used in Russia. In 1893, the city was officially renamed Rezhitsa; since 1918, the national name has been used in Latvia. Rezekne form. The city is named for its location on the river. Rezekne,... ... Toponymic dictionary

- (until 1920 Rezitsa) a city of republican subordination, the center of the Rezekne region of the Latvian SSR. Located on the river. Rezekne (flows into Lake Lubanas). Knot w. lines Riga Moscow and Leningrad Warsaw. 34 thousand inhabitants (1974). Milky... ... Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Rezekne- the name of the middle family of a place in Latvia... Spelling dictionary of Ukrainian language

Rezekne: Rezekne is a city in Latvia. Rezekne River, a tributary of Lake Luban. Railway stations: Rezekne I Rezekne II Rezekne (football club) Rezekne (mini football club) ... Wikipedia

- (until 1893 Rositten until 1917 Rezhitsa), a city (from 1773) in Latvia, on the river. Rezekne. Railway junction. 42.5 thousand inhabitants (1989). Mechanical engineering and metalworking, food industry; flax mill and other enterprises. Museum of Local Lore. Known since... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

This term has other meanings, see Rezekne (meanings). FC Rezekne ... Wikipedia

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This article is about the football club. For information about the sports school, see Youth and Youth Sports School Rezekne. Children's and Youth Sports School Rezekne Complete ... Wikipedia

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