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Reliable and Retro Catering: the Latvian Ēdnīca

"Design-wise, the ēdnīca is less about form and more about function. Net curtains, potted plants and paper doilies are common decorative elements."

Murder Most Orthodox in Estonia: the Death of Zinaida Troitskaia

A remote and cloistered community, a series of mysterious affairs, and a brutal and unexplained murder...

Moscow Dumplings: On Lithuanians and Russians

"what I remember: green lamps, green torchere shades by the bed spreading a soft light, falling on pale wood furniture..."

Feature Article deepbalticMarch 28, 2023 0

Reliable and Retro Catering: the Latvian Ēdnīca

"Design-wise, the ēdnīca is less about form and more about function. Net curtains, potted plants and paper doilies are common decorative elements."Continue Reading →

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Reflections on a Dark Lithuanian Fairytale: Translating Ričardas Gavelis

Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to prefigure recent eventsContinue Reading →

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The Spots of Der Leopard: Latvia's Colonial History Portrayed in Art

A performance by two Dutch artists drew attention to the little-known history of Curonian colonisation in the CaribbeanContinue Reading →

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Murder Most Orthodox in Estonia: the Death of Zinaida Troitskaia

A remote and cloistered community, a series of mysterious affairs, and a brutal and unexplained murder...Continue Reading →

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In Search of Šmakovka: a Latvian Region’s Four Moonshine Museums

Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apartContinue Reading →

culture

Reflections on a Dark Lithuanian Fairytale: Translating Ričardas Gavelis

Ričardas Gavelis was one of Lithuania's best-known writers of recent decades, with a caustic and satirical vision that seems to…

The Spots of Der Leopard: Latvia's Colonial History Portrayed in Art

A performance by two Dutch artists drew attention to the little-known history of Curonian colonisation in the Caribbean

How Memel Germans Saw Lithuanians: Sudermann's Stories

There was a sizeable Lithuanian-speaking peasant class in that part of Prussia, although Lithuanians were considered subordinate to the German-speaking…

Lysergic Blues: Vilis Kasims' Dreamlike Visions of Latvia

"That’s the duality of being kids in a village, almost all the time playing with rocks in the street –…

Disco Alliance: The Latvian Synthesiser Soundtrack to a New Soviet Documentary

"All of this gave the feeling that finally in the Soviet music shops there was a Western album available"

Baltic Partisans on Screen: Room for Improvement

"I think that in all three programmes much too little use is made of the genuine role of women in…

Travel

In Search of Šmakovka: a Latvian Region’s Four Moonshine Museums

Latgalian homebrew is known by many names, and its history reveals many of the things that set this region apart

What I Saw Walking the Baltic Way Thirty Years On

"I undertook this journey with the aim of seeing what was left of that famous human chain on the ground"

Traces of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Tallinn

Estonia's capital hosted the sailing events for the 1980 Olympics, leading to a burst in construction

Black Balsam: Latvia's National Treasure Danish Island's Liquid Pleasure

A famously pungent Latvian spirit has found an appreciative audience on a tiny Danish island

The Train Station Ateljee: Stumbling Across Estonia’s Distant History

Somehow, this display has affected me more than all the statues I’ve seen in city centres all over the world,…

Red Courland: A Guide to the Revolutionary Relics of Kuldīga

“In this building in Autumn 1905 was based the Kuldīga Revolutionary Committee”

Interviews

Imagining Lithuania’s Wolf Children: An Interview with Alvydas Šlepikas

"They went through the circles of hell in their childhood, and maybe that is why it was so difficult to…

Mapping Folklore: Mythical Creatures of the Baltics and Beyond

Vilnius University Press's "Mythical Creatures in Europe" map collects creatures from every corner of the continent

The Interwar Plan for a “Backup Lithuania”: An Interview with Karolis Kaupinis

"Searching for solutions on a large scale, he didn’t find any on the small scale. That’s pretty usual among people."

The Shadow in the East: An Interview with Aliide Naylor

"When Trump ascended to the US presidency I started looking more about what the division of the world into the…

"The Forest Is in Our DNA": Lithuania's Ancient Woods

"We can be proud that we have these in Lithuania, because in Western Europe these were already gone a hundred…

The Other Estonian Language: Preserving and Promoting Võro

North Estonian came to dominate in the 19th century and became the basis for modern standard Estonian, while South Estonian…