Summary/Abstract: Balkan echo and its events affected the East coast of the Baltic sea in a very unpredictable, unusual and tragic way, thus creating the „trigger“ effect for certain war, political and geographical, social, economical and demographical events and phenomena which would completely change the Pribaltika area of the Russian Empire. The First World War, a fatal period in the history of Russian Empire, made crucial influence on the social and political processes in the Pribaltika area and determined division of the East coast of Baltic sea, which had been under the authority of the Russian Empire since the 18th century. The depth and the fatality of the deformation of the Pribaltika area of Russia are strikingly reflected in the Latvian context and its main points are presented in this article.
