Largest city of Latvia

Usage examples of riga.

Catherine II, wishing to shew herself to her new subjects, over whom she was in reality supreme, though she had put the ghost of a king in the person of Stanislas Poniatowski, her former favourite, on the throne of Poland, came to Riga, and it was then I saw this great sovereign for the first time.

In a few sentences he let me know what he could do for me if I intended to spend some time at Riga.

I left Riga with the thermometer indicating fifteen degrees of frost, but though I travelled day and night, not leaving the carriage for the sixty hours for which my journey lasted, I did not feel the cold in the least.

I set out well pleased with the assistance the stuttering Lambert had given me, and by noon I was at Riga.

At Riga an English merchant named Collins told me that the so-called Baron de Stenau, who had given me the forged bill of exchange, had been hanged in Portugal.

When I saw her at Riga she was thirty-five, and had reigned two years.

From Riga, we were four days before getting to Konigsberg, where Madame Valville, who was expected at Berlin, had to leave me.

I was taking leave of him at the same time he said he would have me drive to Riga in one of his carriages, and he gave me a letter for his son, Prince Charles, who was in garrison there.

Shane was looking at Lorain Rigas and there was a dim mocking glitter in his eyes.

While Poles rescued Latvians at Riga, Germans rescued Poles along the Pomeranian Coast.

A request has been made to Soviet Zonal headquarters at Potsdam for further information about the concentration camp in Riga, Latvia, and a search for further witnesses is under way, the spokesman said.

We spent the night at Klein Roop, near Riga, and she offered to give me her diamonds, her jewels, and all that she possessed.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charming taste in early Ming porcelain.

Engelhardt, Die ersten Versuche zur Aufrichtung des wahren Christenthums in einer Gemeinde von Heiligen, Riga, 1881.

Veyitkaddash, Shemay rabbah And so it was that, twenty-one years after it had died in Riga, a major of paratroops of the Army of Israel, standing on a hill in the Promised Land, finally said Kaddish for the soul of Salomon Tauber.