Aspazija

Elza Rozenberga, known as Aspazija, was born on 16 March 1865 in Daukšas, in the parish of Zaļenieki, near Jelgava, into a well-off peasant family. Married in 1886 to Wilhelm Max Valter and divorced in 1891, she settled in Riga in 1893 as a journalist; her plays Vaidelote and Zaudētās tiesības were performed there the following year. She married Rainis in 1897, shared his Russian exile and then lived with him in Castagnola, Switzerland, from 1905 to 1920. Elected to the Constituent Assembly of Latvia, she died in Dubulti on 5 November 1943.

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• PoetrySarkanās puķesAspazija · 1897not translated into EnglishLiterature