[citation needed] These were made to order for a fee by local craftsmen who would wait for wealthy visitors near the cave armed with tools, stepladders and templates.

After the battle the record keeper of the castle, named Greif, found a little girl just a few weeks old among the dead bodies.

Her fiancé, Victor Hail, was a gardener at Sigulda Castle on the opposite side of the Gauja river and in the evenings they would meet at Gutman's Cave.

He sent his fellow deserter Skudritis to her with a fake message from Victor telling her to come to the usual meeting place but at a different time.

For a very long time this story was thought to be a sad legend, but in the middle of the 19th century the court archives in Vidzeme revealed the transcript of the murder case of Maija in the Gutman's Cave dated August 1620.

This ancient legend has led many artists to create works in praise of the devotion of The Rose of Turaida and the power of love.[which?]

The story goes that Victor Hail hacked out this cave for his fiancée, the Rose of Turaida, so she could watch him at work in the gardens of Sigulda Castle.

The story of Maija and Victor is similar to that of Romeo and Juliet, and for this reason Sigulda is sometimes known as the "City of Love".