The Chernyshev-Kruglikov Palace and Park Ensemble
Chechersk was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1772, and in September 1773 was granted by Catherine II to the first Russian governor in Belarus, Field Marshal General Count Zakhar Grigoryevich Chernyshev (1722-1784)
. In 1828, his granddaughter, Sofya Grigoryevna, married Ivan Grigoryevich Kruglikov, to whom she transferred her name, title, and coat of arms in 1832. and the entail of Counts Chernyshev, thereby marking the beginning of the count family of the Chernyshev-Kruglikovs. A 12-hectare landscape park was built around the palace on the banks of the Chechora River, which was almost completely destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. A distillery was built at the palace, which is still
in operation. In 1905, a zemstvo school was located on the Chernyshev-Kruglikov estate, and after 1925 it was renamed the Belorussian school
During the Second World War, the building was severely damaged by fire. After the war, the estate was restored. In the post-war Soviet period, the children's library, the house of Pioneers, and later the historical and ethnographic museum were located here.
Unfortunately, the historical and cultural heritage is in a very deplorable state.
I give 5 stars only for the history and memory.
I hope that funds will be found for the restoration of the palace and it will be possible to turn it into a tourist destination in the future.
A palace, a beautiful building, some kind of century, no one needs it anymore,no one can break it, no one wants to buy it, well, it's worth it, let it continue to stand until it falls apart.
The building, in its present form, practically does not remind that it was once a palace. It looks more like an abandoned school building. Everything that could have been ruined was ruined. It looks like only the entrance gate remains intact. Everything is boarded up, painted over.
It houses a household group of the department of education, a gym with a sauna, several clubs for children, however, the historical building is in disrepair, has been slowly falling apart for many decades and although 8 chairmen of the RIK have been replaced in the area for 20 years, all deputies, heads of departments of education and culture, three governors, none of them has been and does not care about the historical buildings in the city center are probably waiting for some kind of tragedy, as it was near the boiler room on Dzerzhinsky Street, when a child was crushed by a railway stove at an abandoned construction site, then no one sat down and now they are waiting.........
Now at the registration, well, like at a restaurant, it is hardened and falling apart. In my memory, there was a school, then an evening school, then a pioneer house + a sambo section, a little library, a little elementary school, a little rental.