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ID: NGR-013548-P/90334

Tombstone of Michał Petruszkiewicz

Ryga | Latvia
St Michael's Cemetery in Riga
ID: NGR-013548-P/90334

Tombstone of Michał Petruszkiewicz

Ryga | Latvia

The burial place marked by a cross on a plinth, the cross on its own plinth framed by a moulded frame, the arms ending in a trifoliate and decorated with stars. On the front a cast inscription on a horizontal beam. The back of the cross with analogous decoration. The cross placed on a pedestal in the form of rocks.

Inscription:

S. P. / MICHAL PETRUSZKEWICZ / Z CALA FAMILJA. //.

Related persons:

Michał Petruszkiewicz

Time of construction:

ca. 1900-1910

Tombstone location:

Sector number 2 Tomb number 25

Dimensions:

177 x 45 x 26 cm

Materials:

coloured magmatic rocks (granite, syenite and others), cast iron

Additional Information about materials:

Cast-iron pedestal cross in red granite

State of preservation:

mosses, lichens, cavities

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

Inscription and decoration repainted in silver in front of the gravestone is a marble plaque probably from the second half of the 1940s or 1950s commemorating Bolesław Petruszkiewicz with an inscription in Latvian.

Keywords:

cross (on a plinth)

Date of documentation:

2022

Publication:

21.09.2022

Last updated:

20.01.2025

Author of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski
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