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Updated: May 8, 2025
Again and again there appeared in the official records such names as: Lake Sventen, Krevno, Lake Miadziol, Ostroff, Lake Narotch, Smorgon, Dahlen Island, and many others. The net result of all the fighting during May, 1916, was that both sides lost considerable in men and material.
He got as far as Olai on the direct route from Mitau, and even secured a foothold on Dahlen Island in the river south-east of Riga; but these successes profited him no more than the capture of Illukst.
Guldberg, however, managed it so that one of his friends, out of kindness, gave me two lessons a week. The dancer, Dahlen, whose wife at that time was one of the first artistes on the Danish boards, opened his house to me. I passed many an evening there, and the gentle, warm-hearted lady was kind to me.
The people would laugh at me I felt it; the tears rolled down my cheeks; I tore myself loose, and left the stage full of anguish. Shortly after this, Dahlen arranged a ballet of Armida, in which I received a little part: I was a spirit.
At the same time that they were hammering away at the German lines south of Dvinsk other attacks were launched all along the northern front. In the Riga region, near the village of Plakanen, as well as in the district south of Dahlen Island, heavy engagements were fought.
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