Inside Mazaparks, turning to to the left, behind a fenced off area (which reminded me of a carpark - drive-in movie theatre) were 2 sculptures.
The left hand side one was of two males - hunters; the right hand side one was of 2 females.
They were about 3-4 metres tall, white stone?, and heavily covered in grime / mildew / dirt.

I’ve found images of them in the internet, but no history of what / when / why.

Can someone(s) fill in that history?

Let there be light.
Visu gaismas
Maris

Mari, could you post the pictures that you found?
I probably wouldn’t know what to look at, but
like to see….........
Visiting the cemeteries was one of my favorite
side trips in Riga.
In a sense, it was like geting out of Soviet Latvia…...........

https://www.google.com/search?q=mezaparks&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=LQHjT4XYFMrt0gGt39DeAw&ved=0CGEQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=983

Peter B,

I tried to re-find it last night ,, but failed ... Google Earth ain’t what it used to be.
In the link youi posted the ‘spot’, the area is quite clear ... it’;s the 6th image (map) and the area is in pink with a white ‘pill’ shape inside it.
From a bird’s eye view it looke like a track ( a loop) .. a track for running? bicycles? I don’t know.
And the 2 sculptures are on the left hand side end of the carpark.

I’ll keep looking for them again on the net.
I took photos of them ... can I use PM and send them?

As for looking around cemeteries, and ” In a sense, it was like geting out of Soviet Latvia..”
I’m not so sure about that.
The main cemetery across (and down) the road had many russian gravestones (& some quite recent).
As well as accidently having to cross through the russian cemetery.

My trip to Latvia brought back an experience I had on Vancouver Island BC 1983.
I could feel the graveyard nearby ... the dead were dead but all gone as yet.
My sister’s parther verified that there was a cemetery just over the brow of the hill.

Latvia felt like that to me most of the time ... neverendingly walking over a carpet of bones.
Peacefull above ground ... not quite so underneath.

Mari, i lived in Latvia during the Soviet occupation.
Everywhere you looked, there were red flags,
hammer and sickle, Soviet military equipment….......you name it.
We were in the USSR.
Quite often a Russian tank would roll by my school in Ogre
and shake the foundations….......

Going to the cemetary was like time travel….....
For me it was places and times i had never seen. Miera laiki.

Peter B.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=74&with_photo_id=22738976&order=date_desc&user=3239216

This has the photo of the 2 men ... only.
One is a hunter with horn to mouth; the other a warrior with shield in left arm.
This photo was uploaded in 2009.
The photos I took show a lot more surface grime than this one.

The dude with the horn is a buggler…...maybe not this one

http://dzejaa.blogs.lv/2009/12/05/r-blaumanis-talavas-tauretajs/

Peter B,

Your bugler is not the same dude as in my link.
The ‘hunter’ is definitely blowing a horn ... whether it’s a bugle, I dunno.
The ‘horn’ is very similar to what Vilki used in a recent concert here.

Of course, it is not the same statue, but without any finer detail, the
subject matter may be.
Im just guessing. Latvian soldiers had bugglers and
so did the hunters…...................those who seek, find.