Viarky Palace

Vyarkya Palace is located in the city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The palace, built in the Baroque style, is located in the Viarkyai Regional Park, after which it got its name.

The prototype of the palace was a wooden structure erected at the end of the XIV century on this place, where at that time the residence of the bishop was located. The land was received by the bishop as a gift from the Polish king Wladislav II Jagiello.

In 1700, the wooden building was completely destroyed after numerous damages sustained as a result of the battle. A new stone palace was built on the site of the destroyed one and in 1705 the Russian Tsar Peter I. At the end of the XVIII century, the palace was bought by the Vilna bishop Ignatius Masalsky, who began its large-scale restructuring, which was never completed.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the palace suffered significant damage. The restoration and reconstruction of the palace was completed by Russian Field Marshal Peter Wittgenstein, who bought it in 1840. After the death of the owner, the palace gradually fell into decline and was restored in Soviet times. Since 1959, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic was located here and now the Institute of Botany is located here - a research institution within the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.