Vilkaviškis Manor is a former residential manor in
Vilkaviškis
Vilkaviškis () is a city in southwestern Lithuania, the administrative center of the Vilkaviškis District Municipality. It is located northwest from Marijampolė, at the confluence of and rivers.
The city got its name from the Vilkauj ...
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Vilkaviškis District Municipality
Vilkaviškis () is a city in southwestern Lithuania, the administrative center of the Vilkaviškis District Municipality. It is located northwest from Marijampolė, at the confluence of and rivers.
The city got its name from the Vilkauja ...
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Lithuania
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. Currently it is partially reconstructed.
The manor was founded after 1744 - on 25 January 1776 in the list of taxpayers of the area of
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest List of cities in the Baltic states by population, city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaun ...
it is indicated that in Vilkaviškis parish there is Vilkaviškis manor managed by the Oginskis, in the city of Vilkaviškis - 39 agricultural yards and 96 yards in plots. Vilkaviškis parish priest Lachovskis had 5 yards in gardens and a hospital.
In 1812 on 19–24 June,
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
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army
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passed along Vilkaviškis. In the notes of cleric (later prelate) Butkevičius, it is recorded that on 21 June Napoleon himself arrived and settled in the Vilkaviškis manor.
(Other sources mention a tent near the manor). In the vicinity of the manor, on 21 June Marshal
Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Neuchâtel et Valangin, prince de Wagram (; 20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815) was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minister of Wa ...
, Chief of the Army General Staff, issued a recall signed by Napoleon which was effectively a declaration of
war against Russia.
From 1864 till 1904 a Russian army general lived in the manor, during World War I - the Germans. Later, the manor with 80 hectares was bought from the state by priest P. Karalius, after which the Vilkaviškis diocese's curia settled there, bishops Antanas Karosas and Mečislovas Reinys lived here. The manor was liquidated in 1940, during the
Soviet campaign of 1940 - on 5 August the land reform law was passed. During World War II, the palace building was empty, after the war the administration of the Vilkaviškis
Sovkhoz
A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated from , ''sovetskoye khozyaystvo''; ) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union.
It is usually contrasted w ...
was located in it.
References
Manor houses in Lithuania
Neoclassical architecture in Lithuania
Buildings and structures in Vilkaviškis
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