Andrejs Pumpurs, Latvian soldier and poet (died 1902)

Andrejs Pumpurs

Latvian poet

Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch…