Daugavpils University and Saliena Saules School.
As in Kaunas, the government of tsarist Russia built a fortress in Daugavpils in the 19th century. Lithuania also always cared about strategic location. During the interwar period, the Lithuanian governments made claims to Daugavpils. National education was a priority of the government in interwar Latvia, therefore, Polish, Jewish and Russian schools were being closed down and Latvian schools, forming the Baltic Light Chain, were opened. We will visit one of such schools in Saliena. actor and director Solomon Mikhoels and painter Mark Rothko were born in Daugavpils. We will visit a famous Latvian poet, translator, political Knuts Skujenieks, who will tell about his family history related to Lithuania, you will hear the verses of Salomėja Neris in the Latvian language.