Location: Markučiai district (in LT), Pavilniai Regional Park (official website of Pavilniai Regional Park just in LT).
Markučiai Manor Estate ( in Lithuanian) consists of a manor, where Alexander Pushkin literary museum is situated, and a park.
Markučiai - famous for its amazing beauty of nature, called for some time Sakalaičiai, in the 19th c. called Svaitalpolė, always used to be one of the favourite suburb rest places for Vilnius residents. In the 14-15th c. Markučiai belonged to the royal Gurai Manor, since 16th c. - to famous magnates families of Radziwiłł, Kiszka, Chodkiewicz.
In 1867 Russian general and railways construction engineer Aleksej Petrovich Melnikov bought the manor from Polish doctor Ignacy Godlewski and in the same year he buit a new wooden summer cottage on the foundations of the old Kiszka family palace (more detailed info here) and created an English landscape park.
Later on, he passed the manor to his daughter Varvara Melnikova - Pushkina, who in 1883 married A. Pushkin's son Grigory Pushkin.
More about the history of the place here.
Varvara lived here till her death in 1935 and the last will of her was to establish the literary museum of Alexander Pushin in the residential house.
In 1948 her will was executed and the museum was established.
Welcome information board
Let's climb some steps
Summer cottage where the museum is located
Monument of A. Pushkin
Park with ponds
Pond and ducks resting on a bank
Chapel of Saint Barbara and a small family cemetery
I've visited the manor on one beautiful early May Sunday.
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