Chapel-tomb of Svyatopolk-Mirsky. The construction of the family tomb took place in 1904-10 at the expense of Princess Cleopatra Svyatopolk-Mirskaya, the wife of the owner of Mir Castle Nicholas. The author of the project was the St. Petersburg architect Robert Morfeld. He had never been to the world, but he was able to make the temple look like an ancient castle. The stucco coat of arms, the Svyatopolk-Mirsky cartouche, and the panels depicting Christ the Pantocrator stand out in appearance. Inside, the building consists of a chapel with a prayer hall and a crypt with burials. There are 6 graves in the crypt: Nikolai Svyatopolk-Mirsky, his wife Cleopatra, Sonechka's granddaughter, sons Ivan and Mikhail, there is no reliable information about the sixth burial; probably another son Vladimir, who died in 1906 in Egypt, is buried there. With the arrival of the Bolsheviks in 1939, the temple was looted. After World War II, it was used as a granary for a local distillery, and crypto as a compound of coal and peat. Restoration began only in 2004. A new oak iconostasis was made, and the burial was put in order. Since 2014, church services have resumed in the chapel.

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Владимир Л.

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The chapel is large in size and unusual in shape. Built before the revolution by the will of Cleopatra (!) Mikhailovna Svyatopolk-Mirskaya in memory of her husband. These were the new owners of Mir Castle after the Wittgenstein family. The chapel consists of two rooms. The upper one is the actual church. In the lower one there is a crypt with burials. Five slabs lie on the floor according to the number of buried members of the Svyatopolk-Mirsky clan. The coat of arms of the family contains the coats of arms of Kiev and Moscow, hinting at the deep roots and high status of their ancestors.

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Марк Краязнаўца

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The tomb temple built in the park in 1904, designed by the academician of architecture Marfeld, is interesting. Its color scheme — red brick, gray stone, concrete, colorful mosaic panels — successfully harmonizes with the ancient castle, the greenery of the park, the pond, gives even more picturesqueness to this corner of the ensemble.

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Chapel-burial-vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family

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