Manors and folwarks of Rokiškis region | Virtual tour

Rokiškis region has been famous for its manors for a long time. At different periods, there were about 60 manors and folwarks of various sizes in the region, which were owned by the Tyzenhauzai, Pšezdzieckiai, Komarovskiai, Radvilos, Römeriai, Morikoniai and other noble families. Currently,in Rokiškis district there are about 20 surviving manor homesteads or their fragments, as many as 18 of them are included in the Register of Cultural Values.

The virtual tour “Manors and folwarks of Rokiškis region” is an interactive educational cognitive tool for cultural heritage, designed to get acquainted with the popular and less known manors in Rokiškis district. During the tour it is possible to visit the manors virtually, to see the buildings and surroundings of the manor homesteads from the air or from the ground, to read the history of the visited objects, to hear recorded stories presented in Lithuanian, Russian and English languages.

The project was carried out by the Rokiškis Regional Museum.
The project was funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Rokiškis District Municipality.
Project contractors UAB Inverse ir Gidas360

Rokiškis was first mentioned in historical sources in 1499, in the privilege of Grand Duke Aleksandras, which allowed Jurgis Astikas to cut the forest, located to the north of Rokiškis. At that time the manor belonged to the grand duke, but since 1503 it was passed on to his wife Elena.

In 1514, the manor was given to Timofiejus Krošinskis. The manor of Krošinskiai was built at the end of XVI c. - beginning of XVII c.; it was situated on the left bank of Laukupis River, on the hill with a rampart. The palace was wooden, made in the plan of the cross, with the addition of a hexagonal chapel. All the windows of the palace were decorated with shutters, the front windows were decorated with stained glass. Inside the palace there were 20 different rooms, and in the representative rooms there were glazed tile stoves with family coats of arms.

In 1715, the new owners of the Rokiškis estate were the counts Tyzenhauzai. At the end of the XVIII century, Ignotas Tyzenhauzas initiated works on rebuilding the manor. The manor estate was moved to another place, and the composition center of the ensemble was a palace, servants' dwellings standing at the sides, and a mixed planning park with three radial alleys. The new palace was one-story with a mezzanine and high semi-basements. A portico with four columns and a tin dome emphasized the central part. The author of the ensemble is unknown; it is believed that they could have been representatives of the architectural school of Vilnius, Grodno, or Italian architects.

The semi-basement level was intended for household needs and guests, while the first floor was used for living and representative rooms. Important accents in the interior of the palace were stoves, and the walls of the rooms were decorated in shades of yellow, pink, green, and orange. The palace had two halls, a billiard room and a dining room. In the billiard room, there were leather couches and an antique billiard table. The walls of the dining room were painted with Egyptian motifs; through a window door, one could get on a wooden terrace leading into the garden. There was no expensive furniture in the palace, but the counts amassed valuable collections of paintings, weapons, antique porcelain, sculptures, musical instruments and a considerable library.

In the second half of the 19th century, the estate came into the hands of the Pšezdzieckiai family. The manor was reconstructed in 1905 on the initiative of the last Rokiškis count Jonas Pšezdzieckis, according to the project of Karol Jankowski and Franciszek Lilpop. The facades were given a Baroque, Renaissance and Gothic shape, the 2nd floor and outbuildings on the sides of the manor were built, the dome was removed and columns were replaced by three arched openings. Above them, the coats of arms of the Sapiegos, Pšezdzieckiai and Tyzenhauzai were carved.

During reconstruction, the internal layout was changed. The sleeping quarters of the owners were placed in the annexes, children's rooms and living rooms on the second floor. Billiard room, dining room and space on the second floor were connected and transformed into a large hall in the English style, and the former living rooms were combined into a dining room in the style of Zakopanė. The counts lived in the manor until 1940, after the Soviet occupation, they left Rokiškis and the manor was nationalized.

The estate of Panemunis has been known since the 16th century. At that time, the manor belonged to the duke Astikas. In 1598, the land went to the duke Jurgis Masalskis and his wife Ona. In 1605, widowed Ona married duke Martynas Marcelijus Giedraitis and the manor became the property of this family. In 1635, Panemunis was given to the noble family of Oziemblovskiai. It is assumed that during the reign of this family the manor was moved from the left side of Nemunėlis to its present location. According to the inventory of 1685, the estate consisted of two sides, a thatched-roofed building, divided by a central vestibule. On the right side, there was a hut and a cell, on the left side there was a hut, a cell, and a room-room. On the territory of the estate also stood the house of the steward, outbuildings, not far from the estate were cultivated fields, divided by a vegetable garden.

Since 1773, Panemunis belonged to Morikoniai. At the end of the eighteenth century – at the beginning of the nineteenth century they built a new palace, a park was planted at the beginning of the nineteenth century – trees surrounded the manor, in the park were formed garden massifs.

In 1840, the noble family of Komarai became the owners of the manor and once again reconstructed the palace. Teofilis Komaras performed the management of the manor; later his son Juozas continued the work. The old palace building was lengthened, a greenhouse and a veranda were added, and the shape of the pediments was changed. The palace consisted of three parallel structures connected by one-story wings. On the south facade is a stone conservatory – divided by high arched openings. Two low towers with narrow rectangular windows and circular small windows, as if they were intended for shooting, stood at the corners of the orangery.

The central entrance to the palace was decorated with the coat of arms of the owners; entering through the doors, guests entered a hall that divided the building into two parts. In the palace there were more than 20 rooms of different purposes, some of them had columns and plaster sculptures. The interior of the palace was luxurious – living rooms in the Louis XV style, cabinet and library in the Neo-Gothic style, rooms of the palace were decorated with engraved and carved crystal, silverware, bronze, Japanese porcelain, stuffed animals.

The representative part of the palace was the complex of the palace, granary and orangery. Slightly further away were other buildings of the manor – a blacksmith shop, a dwelling for farmhands, a stable, and a carriage shed. Gardens and ponds surrounded the manor; part of the territory was fenced with iron gates.

After J. Komaras' death, the estate passed to his widow and daughters Sofija Komaraitė-Gurskienė and Elžbieta Komaraitė-Krasickienė. Elžbieta and her husband Vitoldas Krasickis lived in the manor until 1924, and then Osvaldas Laučiškis, who returned from emigration to America, bought the manor from them. He managed the Panemunis estate until 1940, until a nationalization of manor.

Onuškis was first mentioned in written sources in 1499. Grand Duke of Lithuania Aleksandras issued a privilege, according to which he gave Jurgis Astikas the grove together with the manor, built by Hanusas Gailiminaitis without permission. Although Hanusas was kicked out of the estate, his built estate was further called Hanušiškiai.

In 1609, the last representative of the Astikai in Onuškis died and the manor was passed to the Duninai-Rajeckiai family. In the 18th century, noblemen Chominskiai purchased the manor. In the inventory of 1791, it was indicated that a dwelling house of Chominskiai estate was built of hewn logs covered with straw. The front room led to the inside of the house, and behind it were several rooms, in which there were rookeries, a stove, and a bakery along the walls. The house was very modest, so it is believed that the owners did not live in it. In the yard there were barns, stables, hayloft, the garden was fenced with sharp stakes with a gate.

At the turn of the 18-19th centuries, the estate belonged to Komarai. In 1830-1840, Teofilis Komaras constructed a late classical style manor house believed to have been designed by architect Cesaris Laurynas Anikinis. The manor was on a hill, on either side of the road leading to Courland. It was a rectangular building with a two-story central section and one-story side wings. The facade of the manor house, the center of which stood out against a background of 11 columns, faced the park, while a portico with four columns, above which a triangular pediment loomed, marked the facade facing the road. The drawing by Napoleon Orda, made in the 1870s, shows square pavilions along the sides of the estate, but by the 20th century, they were gone. There is almost no information about the interior of the manor. The manor is believed to have had a large hall, which was called a billiard room, from which two corridors led to small rooms.

The entrance gate was set in front of the main axis of the manor, and the entrance was paved with stone pavers. Colored flowerbeds separated the manor from the road, and on the other side was a barn with columns of the same style. The outbuildings on the sides of the flowerbeds and the servants' buildings, together with the manor house, formed a representative, semi-enclosed courtyard.

In the 19th century, an English-style park appeared. Spruces, lindens, maples, larches, lilacs, and rarer species of trees grew here. All the trees were planted in groups so that there was a view through the windows on the front side. A pond was dug at the bottom of the park into which water from the surrounding springs flowed.

During World War I, the manor burned down, and in 1919, Vitoldas Komaras, the last male member of the family, died. During independence, the estate was called Onuškis in Lithuania, but its grandeur faded – the manor was not rebuilt, Vitoldas' wife Marija and her daughter lived in the servants' building and during the land reform, the estate's holdings were dismantled.

The first information about the Ilzenbergas estate appeared in the 16th century. In 1515 the manor was founded by Berndt von Kersenbrock, a knight of the Livonian Order. Ilzenbergas was the possession of this nobleman, who administered the manor until 1616. Over the next few centuries, the manor was owned by various noble families – the manor was ruled by the von Korffs, von Zakens, and von Orgies-Rutenbergs, who also planted the manor park. From the middle of the 16th century till the second half of the 19th century not only the owners of the manor changed frequently, but also their political affiliation. Until 1561 Ilzenbergas manor was a part of Livonian Order and after its collapse, Ilzenbergas became a part of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. After the Third Partition of the Rzeczpospolita, it became part of the province of Courland in the Russian Empire.

In the second half of 19th century Ernst Dietrich von Orgies-Rutenberg sold the manor to N.N. Fuchsas — the Russian railway engineer. He erected an L-shaped masonry palace in the late classicist style. The main facade was symmetrical; the central part of the palace was decorated by porticoes with four stuccoed pilasters of brickwork and a triangular pediment rising above them. Other buildings on the estate were built of stone and rubble, and 14 native and 4 non-native species of trees were grown in the expanded park.

In 1896, an engineer from Zdoniškė, Eugenijus Dimša, moved into the estate with his wife Livija Majoresku, the daughter of a well-known public figure, the Prime Minister of Romania. They had 3 daughters – Janina Klara, Livija Emilija, and Eugenija, who died at an early age and was buried near the parents' estate. At that time there were two large gardens around the palace, a large park with maples, oaks, pines, hazel trees, jasmines, and acacias nearby. Various shaped flower beds were laid out all over the territory, benches were installed in the park, paths were covered with gravel, and a stepped path led from the park to the nearest lake.

During World War I the family moved to St. Petersburg, and the estate was the headquarters of the German army. E. Dimša died in 1918, and Livija did not return to the ruined estate until 1920, where she lived with her daughter Livija Emilija and ran the household until 1940. During the interwar period, the landlords lived in rooms in one wing of the palace and their servants lived in another. The living room of the palace was decorated with a mirror to the ceiling, a green tiled stove, and a piano, on which the mistress herself played. Guests arriving in the lobby were greeted by a stuffed bear.

After the border between Lithuania and Latvia was established, part of the manor's land ended up on Latvian territory, and Lake Ilgis, which belonged to the Dimša family, was divided in half. Because the manor was near the border, the mistress assigned rooms in the palace for the office of the Lithuanian-Latvian border crossing, and the premises were rented to officials of state services. The palace also housed the only police officer of the county, who guarded the Lithuanian-Latvian border strip.

In 1940, after the occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, Livija and her daughters left for Vilnius, then for Romania to avoid expulsion. After that, the estate was nationalized.

The first information about the Antanašė manor dates back to the 17th century, when the manor belonged to the barons von der Ropp. In this century, the noble family of Bilevičius obtained the estate, and after the marriage of Elena Bilevičiūtė with Ignotas Morikonis, the Antanašė estate became the property of this family. At the end of the 18th century, Steponas Dominykas Römeris purchased Antanašė. At that time, the Römers did not build a new manor in Antanašė and lived in the originally built manor.

After the death of S. D. Römeris, his son Mykolas Juozapas inherited the manor, but he did not live in Antanašė. In 1852, the nobleman divided the estates to his children, and Edvardas Jonas, who recently returned from exile, received Antanašė. During his reign, Antanašė became the main seat of the Römers of Trakai.

It was abandoned until 1852, and after a fire in 1855, the manor was badly damaged and had to be renovated. E. J. Römeris started to reconstruct the manor in 1856. The new manor was built using elements of the old building. The one-story structure with a semi-basement and an attic consisted of two parts – a residential building and a tower with Neo-Gothic features. The new manor was distinguished by simple architecture and had no special decorative elements. The only decorations of the palace was Neo-Gothic windows and the previously mentioned tower with warehouses. The tower was demolished in the 20th century.

It is almost unknown what the interior of the manor house looked like. There is information that in the rooms there were old furniture, many seals, rings and paintings. The most valuable was the archive of the Römer family, passed down from generation to generation. The archive consisted of correspondence, accounts and data on the implementation of the reform of serfdom, records of the education and activities of the family, M. J. Römeris' diaries and other valuable documents.

The manor was surrounded by a large landscape park leading to Našys Lake. Almost half a kilometer long chestnut alley led to the manor, in front of which a large lawn laid out. Next to the alley grew orchards with old trees, with a clearing through which the manor house had a view of the lake.

After the death of E. J. Römeris, his son Bronislovas Antanas inherited the manor in 1878. He managed the manor until 1899, after which three sons – Bronislovas Dimitras Konstantinas Bogdanas, who died in battle against Bolsheviks, Tadas Ludvikas Viktoras, who chose diplomatic service in Poland and Motiejus Steponas Jurgis, who stayed to live and manage the farm in Antanašė, inherited the manor. With the outbreak of World War I, he drafted into the army and in 1917 began serving in the Polish army. During the interwar period, as a Polish officer, he could not return to Lithuania. M. S. J. Römeris visited the abandoned and almost bankrupt manor house only in 1939.

Rokiškis area has long been the border of the border area, so the settlements of the area often received the name "Kraj" (lit. Kraštai). There are five settlements in the Rokiškis area, which previously bore this name. One of the Kraštai was located near Obeliai. The date of the foundation of the locality is unknown, but the census summary of the Ukmergė County Council (1775) mentions the Kraštai Folwark, which belonged to the parish of Obeliai. In 1825, the Rokiškis county inventory states that at that time, Kraštai village belonged to Pomarnickiai, and then it became the property of the Tupalskiai family.

At the end of the 19th century, Juozas Tupalskis built a masonry palace in the style of historicism. The palace was rectangular, one-story with a central two-story part. A porch with a balcony above which a viewing tower lent grandeur to the building dominated the eastern facade. According the date found on a metal weathervane above the tower, is believed that the palace was built in 1892.

Inside the palace, the rooms on the north side and the basements arranged in a two-way corridor. On the south side, a vestibule immediately leads to the rooms adjoining it. The interior of the palace was modest, with only the huge vaulted cellars standing out.

J. Tupalskis laid out a park and garden near the palace. In the large garden of 8 hectares grew traditional apple, pear, plum, and berry bushes. The property owners rented most of the garden, especially in the interwar period, to Jews. Deciduous trees grew in the manor park, as well as maples, ash trees, lindens, and oaks, and an alley of trees led to the palace itself. The manor estate surrounded on several sides bodies of water – a swamp stood on the north side, an unnamed brook flowed on the west side, and Lake Padvarinis was on the east side. Outsiders who wanted to fish on the lake had to give half the catch.

J. Tupalskis died in 1904. Since he had no children or close relatives, his cousins Juozas and Edvardas Tupalskiai inherited the Kraštai estate. In the interwar period, they owned 120 hectares of land and a lake. Rye, peas and potatoes grew well on the land of the estate, which the owners sold to the "Lithuanian Farm" (lit. Lietūkis). Horses did agricultural work because there were few machines on the estate. In the interwar period, a dairy was built in the cellar of the farmstead. Every week 2.5 t of butter was made in it.

In 1923, at the initiative of the farmers of the county, an elementary school was established in a large room of the manor house – the farmers paid rent at their own expense to the owners, made pairs, and hired a teacher. The estate also rented the teacher a room to live in.

When the Soviet occupation began in 1940, the Kraštai estate was nationalized. Juozas Tupalskis' family left for Poland, and Edvardas and his family deported to Siberia in 1948.

Bagdoniškis manor is mentioned in written sources since the middle of the 17th century. At that time, Bagdoniškis manor was a part of Kriaunos manor and belonged to Rudaminos Dusetiškiai. At the end of the 17th century, Kriaunos manor together with the folwarks passed to Kotryna Rudaminaitė, who married Aleksandras Oginskis. In 1714 Bagdoniškis was separated from Kriaunos manor and sold, but for a long time it had no permanent owner. Only in 1786, Steponas Dominykas Römeris purchased Bagdoniškis.

After the death of Steponas Dominykas, his son Mykolas Juozapas inherited the property. It is known that during his reign the house of the lord and the house for the servants were built, a garden was planted; three ponds were dug, which were connected by bridges. The manor itself was wooden and had no special decorative elements. Large arched cellars decorated the manor.

In 1852, the manor was given to Mykolas Juozapas' grandson Mykolas Kazimieras, who gave rise to the family line of the Römer family from Bagdoniškis. During his reign the manor flourished – most of the manor's buildings appeared – the dairy, smokehouse, the servants' quarters, barns, and other buildings. In 1921, after the death of M. K. Römeris, the estate was divided among 5 daughters and a son, professor Mykolas Pijus Paskalis. Four parts of the estate were divided and sold, and M. Römeris and his sister Elvyra Miečkovska divided the remaining property.

Elvyra and her family lived in the old master's house, so in the 1930s M. Römeris began to form the new center of the estate. In 1925, a wooden red house with an attic, two balconies, and four columns decorating the front facade of the house was built according to the project of Stefanas Römeris'. Along with the house was built a kitchen, a stone barn, and a garden was planted. Silver spruces, larches, and other rare plants grew in the garden, and swans swam in the ponds.

On the first floor of the manor house, there was a corridor running the length of the house. On the left side was the bedroom and children's room, and on the right was the dining room, from which a veranda with the windows decorated with Gothic stained-glass, was accessible. A spiral staircase led to the second floor. On the second floor was an office of M. Römeris and a balcony, then "Ancestral Gallery" with portraits of the Römer family, and behind the gallery was a library. The Römer family did not permanently reside in the Bagdoniškis estate, but frequently visited it, the professor prepared lectures, wrote articles, and conducted examinations for students.

When the war broke out, M. Römeris and his family moved to Bagdoniškis, but after the land reform, the manor owned only 10 hectares of land. In 1944, the family moved to Vilnius. In 1945, M. Römeris passed away.

Gačionys manor is mentioned in written sources as far back as the 18th century. Small Lithuanian noblemen ruled Gačionys, and at the end of the 18th century, the estate went to Baron Rosen of Courland. At that time, Gačionys Folwark belonged to Asaniškiai manor, which managed Kazimieras Rosen. He separated Gačionys Folwark from the manor and gave it to Antanas Rosen to manage. At that time, the manor was already built, but its exact location and what it looked like is unknown.

The new neoclassical wooden manor house was built according to the design of engineer Janas Rosen in 1870. The homestead consisted of three parts. The sides were one-story and the central part was two-story. The central part was decorated with a portico of 6 Doric columns – 4 columns projecting forward emphasized the axis of the manor, while the other 2 stood for the balcony. The columns on the second floor adorned the attic and were the same as those on the first floor, only smaller. A veranda with columns and a three-pitched roof, decorated with carvings, was built on the courtyard side, while all the walls of the manor were decorated with horizontal boards. In 1894, the manor was rebuilt again but many original details of the manor were preserved such as the facade, windows, doors and the natural wooden color with white columns in the background. During the reconstruction, the colonnade was highlighted, the portico was changed, from which the mansard was removed, leaving only a balcony, so that the building, which had previously been overcrowded, became simple and elegant.

The interior of the building was divided into two parts. The rooms on the left side were separated by a corridor. In the central part was a large hall with a marble fireplace against the main doors and staircase. A summer dining room was arranged in one room and a winter dining room in the other. The two rooms facing the garden were intended as living rooms. The representative rooms had cassette ceilings, paneled walls, and dark and light oak parquet forming a square pattern. The estate housed a large library of 2,000 publications, mostly in French, as well as an art collection. Unfortunately, the antique furniture and works of art of the manor were lost during the First World War.

A park dominated by ancient linden alleys up to 2 kilometers long surrounded Gačionys manor. Another row of linden trees led to two ponds connected by sluices and bridges, and there was a lake next to the manor.

Barons lived in the estate until 1940. In the early years of the Soviet occupation, the estate was nationalized and the Rosen family was deported.

Tarnava manor was built in the middle of the 18th century, the manor grew out of the old manor of Jūžintai. Jūžintai manor was mentioned back in the 16th century and belonged to the Astikai. The manor was situated on the high bank of the river Šventoji, not far from the place where it flows out of Rašai Lake. The Astikai did not manage the estate for long, as their property was confiscated at the end of the 16th century because of liaisons with Moscow. In 1600 the Grand Duke of Lithuania Zigmantas Vaza gave the confiscated estates to Gedeonas Duninas-Rajeckis. This family owned the estate for over 100 years.

In the middle of the 18th century, the daughter of the manor’s owner married Mykolas Veisenhofas, and Jūžintai estate became the property of the family. Mykolas annexed the county lands to Jūžintai, and his son Pranciškus decided to move the palace to another place. The manor house was built 4 km east of the town, high on the shore of Lake Rašai. This is how the Tarnava manor was built, which was completed around 1858, after the death of Pranciškus. Tarnava's palace was one-story with a two-story central section, plastered masonry, but did not have a definite style. On the lakeside the palace was decorated with an arcaded portico and on the opposite side stood a square tower. Because of the constant rebuilding, outbuildings were erected on both sides of the palace. Inside the palace, there was a lot of furniture, the family archive, a large collection of tiles and portraits of the Veisenhofas family.

In the second half of the 19th century a mixed plan park was laid out near the new manor. It was placed on two terraces: the upper one – near the palace, the lower one – near the lake. The terraces were separated by a stone wall. The alley of thujes and maples, lindens and ash trees grew in the park. A stone staircase led from the palace to the lake.

Four more generations of Veisenhofai lived in the new palace. The last owners of the manor were Valdemaras and Juozapas Veisenhofai. Juozapas Veisenhofas was a writer and described the Tarnava manor's surroundings in his novel "The Sable and the Girl".

During the interwar period, during the land reform, the Tarnava estate was dismantled. In 1923, Tarnava was purchased by Juozas Vėbra, who had returned from America. Soon he sold the manor to Jonas Vėgelis, a colonel in the Lithuanian army, who wanted to give the manor a new name, Rašai manor, and who decorated the palace tower with Gediminas columns. When the second Soviet occupation approached, J. Vėgelis left for Austria and the manor was nationalized.

The manor and the town of Salos were mentioned back in the 15th century as one of the possessions of the dukes Kęsgailos. In the middle of the 16th century, duke Mikalojus Krustupas Radvila, who belonged to the Radvilos family from Nesvyžius, owned the manor. A little later, the bishop of Vilnius, Cardinal Jurgis Radvila, became the owner of the manor. The Radvilos built the first palace of the manor in Salos. In 1661, Boguslavas Radvila mortgaged the Salos estate to the Italian count Ferdinandas Morikonis.

The inventory of 1766 shows that the palace was wooden, with two cellars, built on a stone foundation. On the lakeside, they were joined by a gallery of masonry, which, together with the cellars, could be joined to the palace of masonry. The Radvilos used to come here to hunt, so there was a forest park and menagerie near the manor. In the second half of 18th century there was an orchard with tall lindens and poplars growing around it.

In 1806, Salos becomes the property of the Morikonis family – it was purchased by Ignotas Morikonis. Ignotas Morikonis was generous to his peasants – he abolished serfdom arrears on his estates, founded peasant funds, which financed pharmacies and medical attendants, and insured peasant huts against fire. He built a new palace in the Salos in the Classical style, which was designed by the architect Pietro de Rossi. The main part of the palace featured a six-column portico and a large triangular pediment decorated with the Morikonis family coat of arms. As the palace was built on a slope, it was one-story on the north side, only the central part was two-story and on the south side a very elevated basement, resulting in two floors on the west side. Small columns with decorated heads between the windows distinguished the facade of the palace.

In the center of the palace, an oak staircase led to a hall on the second floor from a vestibule. The right wing of the palace was laid out along a corridor, while the left row of transitional rooms was laid out along one axis. The rooms were parquet and were decorated with fireplaces and stoves of multicolored bricks, decorated with figures and carvings, and Greek columns framed some of the stoves. One salon of the palace was circular, decorated with columns to the ceiling; the chapel next to it stood out for its pseudo-Gothic features. In front of the palace, a flower garden was laid out, the park itself was rebuilt – here again, there was a zoo, a stone hunting lodge, an aviary with pheasants was built, and a mixed park was laid out.

Ignotas' son Lucijanas was the last representative of the Morikonis family. He squandered the estate and sold Salos to count Reinoldas Tyzenhauzas. During his reign the manor flourished – aristocratic balls were held here, there was a summer theater in the park, where foreign actors performed.

After the death of the count, his sister Marija Tyzenhauzaitė-Pšezdzieckienė inherited the estate. The last owner of Salos was the writer and diplomat Reinoldas Pšezdzieckis. During the First World War, the Germans occupied the estate. After the war, during the land reform, the manor was taken over by the Lithuanian state. Since 1924, the Salos manor palace and the district buildings were given to the agricultural school and the rest of the manor's lands were given to Lithuanian volunteers and settlers.