Ēvalds Inspēters – today
During his lifetime, Ēvalds Inspēters has become convinced that “the more you smile, the longer you live”, and this attitude allows him to view life with joy, no matter what happens. Every Sunday, Ēvalds serves at the Sigulda Evangelical Lutheran Church as a churchwarden. At 85 years of age he is still an active man and enjoys riding his bicycle around the town, as well as to the surrounding forests. He enjoyed picking berries and mushrooming in the country of his childhood, Bashkiria, as well as in Sigulda.
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Latvians in Bashkiria
Starting from the late 19th century, hundreds of Latvian families voluntarily moved to the Russian provinces to get their own plot of land, which at that time in Latvia could only be bought or leased for a disproportionately high and unaffordable price for the majority of country people. One of the emigrants’ destinations was the Ufa Province about 2,500 km away, where there was a lot of available land at the time.
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