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The house at 40 R\u012bgas Street, known in history as Faber’s House, occupies an important place in the history of Cesis, but with an interesting twist – it turns out that the building, long known as Faber’s House, was not actually the real house of K\u0101rlis Faber! Although tourist guides list it as the place where Johann K\u00f6hler, later known as the founder of Estonian national painting, lived and worked from 1839 to 1846, archival documents reveal that the real house of his master, Karl Faber, was located on the corner of Liel\u0101 L\u012bvu and Maz\u0101 Katr\u012bna Streets. Unfortunately, this building was destroyed during the Second World War in September 1944. It is possible that only Faber’s workshop was located at 40 R\u012bgas Street. <\/p>\n

40 R\u012bgas iela has a rich commercial history. 20. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was a bustling commercial centre, with shoe workshops, knitting mills, a tailor and other businesses. 1930. In 1927, Krist\u012bne Maz\u012bte’s tearoom was closed, and one of the longest tenants was V. Aleksejevs with his grocery shop and bakery, which operated from 1927 to 1934. His advertisements in \u201cCesis Newspaper\u201d were as vivid as his business: \u201cNot empty advertising – but a fact. Why do I sell so cheap? It’s simple: I buy my goods in bulk direct from the source\u201d, or the bold statement \u201cthe crisis is over\u201d, because in his shop rye bread cost only 6 cents a pound. <\/p>\n

No less important was M. Radzi\u0146\u0161’s electrical and radio shop, which operated in this building from 1927 to 1930. The entrepreneur boasted that his shop was “the only one in Cesis” where radio receivers and loudspeakers were made. His technical talent was also recognised: one of the devices he designed won first prize in a competition organised by Philips. 1930. In 2007, Radzi\u0146\u0161 moved to a more prestigious location – 4 R\u012bgas Street.<\/p>\n

During the Second World War and in the post-war years, the building’s function changed. 1941. In the spring of 2009, the photographer R. Za\u0137is, one of the few who were allowed by the Soviet authorities to take passport photographs, worked here. After the war, the building was used as a special shop for the C\u0113sis Consumers’ Association “Spectorgs”, where employees could buy detergents, state vodka and papiros. <\/p>\n

The building was also home to the prominent Latvian writer and journalist Melanija Vanaga (1905-1997), who lived with the owner Mrs Ri\u0161ov\u00e1 during her school years, before graduating from C\u0113sis Secondary School (then M. Neija Gymnasium for Women) in 1925. <\/p>\n

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\n<\/em>Dace Cepur\u012bte, Mg. hist., Research \u201cC\u0113snieks un jeho nams<\/a>\u201d
\nCollections of the Cesis Castle Museum.
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Although the house at 40 R\u012bgas Street is called \u201cFaber’s House\u201d, the real property of the painter Karlis Fabers was located at the corner of Liela Livu and Maza Katrinas Streets, as evidenced by entries in the Cesis City Magistrate’s Land and Inheritance Book.
\nJohann K\u00f6hler, the son of poor Estonian peasants, studied with Faber for seven years and later became the first academically educated Estonian painter and Russian court artist. <\/p>\n

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  • 1839-1846: Johans K\u00f6hler studies in Cesis with the painter K\u0101rlis F\u0101bers<\/li>\n
  • 1925: Latvian writer Mel\u0101nija Vanaga, who lived at 40 R\u012bgas Street, graduates from C\u0113sis Secondary School<\/li>\n
  • 1927-1934: V. Alekseevs grocery and bakery shop, M. Radzins electrical and radio shop<\/li>\n
  • 1928-1929: A. Teikmanis shoe workshop at 40 R\u012bgas Street<\/li>\n
  • 1930: Kristine Mazite’s tearoom closes; M. Radzi\u0146a moves her shop to 4 R\u012bgas Street<\/li>\n
  • 1931-1935: Knitting shop in the building<\/li>\n
  • 1932-1933: A. Eglitis’s tailor’s workshop at 40 R\u012bgas Street<\/li>\n
  • 1941: R. Za\u0137is works as a photographer in apartment No. 2 at 40 Riga Street, having been allowed by the Soviet authorities to take and produce photographs for passports<\/li>\n
  • 1944: the real Faber House on the corner of Liel\u0101 L\u012bvu and Maz\u0101 Katr\u012bnas Streets is destroyed during the Second World War<\/li>\n
  • After 1945: the Soviet authorities establish the C\u0113sis Consumers’ Association \\”Spectorgu\\” at 40 R\u012bgas Street<\/li>\n
  • Today: the building is practically in ruins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1604,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[204,206],"product_tag":[210,214,215],"class_list":{"0":"post-1726","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cesis-house","7":"product_cat-residential-buildings","8":"product_tag-culture","9":"product_tag-music","10":"product_tag-society","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}