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Kropotkin Family Cemetery and View of Turaida Castle

Kropotkin Family Cemetery and View of Turaida Castle

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Kropotkin Family Cemetery and View of Turaida Castle

Name: Kropotkin Family Cemetery and View of Turaida Castle
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Location: Vidzeme, Latvia

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Cornelia Fuchs

July 28, 2024

Kropotkin's family cemetery in Sigulda was established at the end of the 18th century in a beautiful place with a view on Gauja valley and Turaida castle towers.

It is known that Olga Kropotkina, born as von der Borch and the mother of Prince Nikolai Kropotkin, was buried here in year 1898. To honour her memory, a memorial plaque with moulding has been installed in the Sigulda Lutheran Church. Today, this plaque is stored at Turaida Museum Reserve.

Sister of Prince Nikolai Kropotkin - Aleksandra Sarina, born as Kropotkina, was buried in the family cemetery before the World War I.

It is possible that grandmother of Olga Kropot- Laval, also lies in this ground. Memories of Sigulda's people bear witnesses that Kropotkin's nanny Helena, who worked at the family for many years, could be buried here, as well. In 2014 the last legatee of Kropotkin's family - Nikolai Kropotkin (1924-2014), who was born and spent his life in Germany, was laid to rest here. Here have been reburied Nikolai's wife Nina Kropotkina (1919-2005), born Knecht- Hansherly, father Dmitri Kropotkin (1895-1931), mother Nina Kropotkina (1901-1940), born as Stolnikov and his grandfather Nikolai Kropotkin (1872-1937).

Burial place was restored by Sigulda district municipality.

Nobiliary roots of the Russian family of Kropotkin's stretch back to Grand Princes of Smolensk.

Fun fact, Peter Kropotkin, arguably the foremost theorist of the anarchist movement, also belongs to the same family. He was a cousin to the builder of Sigulda New Castle.

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Kropotkin Family Cemetery and View of Turaida Castle

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3. Sigulda New Castle – View of Krimulda Manor loop from Turaida

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