White Nights in Tolstoy House

The Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation is among the more strangely-named places I've visited in Latvia. A history museum is certainly normal, but the "...and Navigation" part of the name takes things in a different direction (actually, the museum has had many names over the centuries, and did not acquire this moniker until 1964). As it turns out, this is more or less a standard city history museum. The building housing the museum is part of the Riga Dom complex, with the north side of the building looking out on the courtyard between the cloisters and the Dom Church. The museum has been located here in the center of Riga since 1773, and is the oldest public museum in the Baltic region (and among the oldest in all of Europe). The museum tells the 800-year history of Riga via thousands of artifacts spread through 16 rooms. A smaller portion of the exhibits covers the history of seafaring and commerce in the Baltic Sea over the last millennium. This focus diff