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Sigulda. History of Turaida Castle. Schloss Treiden. Turaida Castle .Turaidas pils.
The legend of the Turaida rose is associated with the castle. According to legend, in 1601 Swedish troops captured the castle. After the battle, the palace clerk Greif found an emaciated girl among the dead. He brought her home and promised to raise her. It happened in May, so he decided to call the girl Maya.
Years later, Maya became so beautiful that she was called the Rose of Turaida. On the other bank of the Gauja lived her fiancé, the gardener of the Sigulda Castle Viktor Heyol. In the evenings Maya and Victor met in Gutman's cave. Victor to the left of this cave dug another small one. In anticipation of meeting with his bride, he decorated the small cave with flowers. Today this cave is named after Victor.
The beauty of Maya was fascinated by one of the mercenaries of the manager of the Turaida castle, Adam Yakubovsky, whom the manager was going to dismiss soon. All courtship and proposals of Adam Turaida Rose rejected. Then Adam decided to take revenge on Maya and take her by force. In this he was assisted by his friend Peteris Skudritis.
In August 1620 Maya received an invitation (allegedly from Victor) to meet urgently in a cave. Arriving at the meeting, Maya saw Yakubovsky and Skudritis and realized that she had been deceived. Then she shouted: "Stop! Now you yourself will be convinced of the strength of the scarf. I will tie it. The sword is with you, cut with all your might and you will not cause me any harm." Adam struck Maya's kerchiefed neck with his sword. Blood poured out immediately, the girl fell without even screaming. Adam realized that he was a "terrible beast" and ran deep into the forest. Some time later, Skudritis discovered Adam in the forest, hanging himself on the baldric of his sword.
Skudritis and Adam thought that the handkerchief had some kind of magical power, so neither of them expected such an outcome, and only later Skudritis realized that Maya decided to do this because she believed that it was better to die than lose honor.
That same evening, Victor came to the cave to meet with Maya and found her bloodied body. Victor was blamed for Maya's death, as a gardener's ax was found in the cave. The judges decided to force a confession out of Viktor with the help of torture, from which Skudritis' testimony saved him. Pēteris Skudrītis was haunted by the crime committed, so he came to court and told everything. The case turned out to be open. The gardener Victor and the clerk Greif insisted on punishing Peteris so as not to desecrate Maya's memory with blood, and besides, they did not consider him the direct culprit of the crime.
The remains of Maya were buried with all honors, Victor personally installed a cross on her grave, and after that he left the country, as a broken heart could not find peace here. The corpse of Yakubovsky's killer was buried in a swamp. Skudritis spent 4 months in prison, during which time he deeply repented, after which he was expelled from the country.
The legend of the Turaida Rose was put into circulation by Magnus von Wolffeld, a member of the Vidzeme Court Court. The found archival documents of the Vidzeme court court testify that the legend is based on real events. Although the veracity of the legend about the Turaida Rose has been repeatedly disputed.
As for the Kropotkins, they received a large part of Sigulda simply as a dowry. In the middle of the 19th century, the proud German Olga von Borch succumbed to the charm of Prince Dmitry Kropotkin and became his wife. At the end of the 19th century, the estate was managed by her son, Prince Nikolai Dmitrievich Kropotkin.
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