Famous fellow countrymen
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Stomersee - Stāmerienas pils
The last Prince of Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957), Italian writer (novel Il Gattopardo, first published posthumously in 1958) lived in Stomersee - the Stāmeriena palace for a few years in the 1930s as he married the palace's owner Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee (1894-1982) in 1932, a Baltic German noblewoman and a student of psychoanalysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_von_Wolff-Stomersee
Her mother was a soprano Alice Barbi, the very Johannes Brahms produced her farewell concert in 1893, she had ties with many famous artists in Europe, including Clara Schumann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Barbi
Edward Leedskalnin / Edvards Liedskalniņš
b. 1887 in Stāmeriena parishEdward Leedskalnin (Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (1887 – 1951) was a self-taught engineer who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Florida, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
P. S. „Liedes kalni” ir (kalnu rinda) Adulienes pag. Liedes upes labajā krastmalā. Pilskalnā un Māras kalnā ir melna mītņu kārta ap 0,5 m. biezumā. Tā satur lauskas, oglītes. https://www.latvijas-pilskalni.lv/liedes-kalni/
Graf von Zeppelin
Alt-Laitzen / Jaunlaicene & Alt-Schwanenburg / VecGulbeneFerdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (1838 – 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. On 7 August 1869 Ferdinand married Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg (present day — Gulbene town in Latvia, then part of Livonia).
Barbara Juliane v. Krudener
M. v. Browne
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