(This post is a continuation from the Latvian Independence Day Celebration Post.  It contains a short video of the exhibition on St. Peter and St. Paul Church titled, Ave, Munchhausen!.)

There is a legend that Baron Munchhausen lived behind the St. Peter and St. Paul Church in the 18 century.  However, this may be an erroneous claim that Munchhausen claimed to add to his imaginative and inventive life’s adventure.

Modernity probably knows the story of Baron Munchhausen from the 1988 movie, “The Adventure’s of Baron Munchhausen” (Some of the video in the exhibtion is from the movie).  A fantastical account of the fartfetched folktales that were his life adventures.  The real Munchhausen was born in Germany later served in the Russian military.  Munchhausen’s escapades took him to Latvia, where he met and married Jacobine von Dunten.