This is the mansion in the district of Jurmala on which I based the home of Juhla and her mother. When Juhla first took Carl to visit, he thought they must be a well-to-do family. This misconception was short-lived, however, when she explained that her mother merely kept house for the rich Russian owners, who allowed them to occupy the smaller annex on the left as retainers.

The building is typical of the many fine summer residences surviving along Latvia's Baltic coast.

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Tukums

First visit in 2004. On the hill between the railway station and the town.

Portrait c1915

My grandfather Kahrl John Tewdor Evardson (back right) with his brother Emil and sister Lily.

Portrait c1910

My great-grandfather Charley Evardson aged about 42.