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Leipalingis Manor

Leipalingio dvaras

Antanas Kruševskis, a canon of the Vilnius Chapter, bought Leipalingis from Bishop Ignas Jokūbas Masalskis in 1792 and built a small palace with ten columns in the Classicist style. The project was designed by architect Martynas Knakfusas. In 1905, the palace was bought by the St Petersburg engineer and architect Petr Balinsky. Nearby, right here, he built a two-storey warehouse with a vaulted cellar and decorated with eight Doric columns. Later, this warehouse was connected to the central palace by a single-storey corridor – the orangery. The warehouse and the orangery changed their function during the Soviet period. Classrooms were built on the ground floor and a sports hall on the first floor. In 2008, reconstruction work began on the manor’s central palace, which was completed in 2015, and in 2021 the renovated complex built by Peter Balsinski, with its ancient vaulted cellars and a concert hall on the second floor, opened its doors.