Interior of the Tyszkiewicz Palace in Astrashytski Haradok by Albert Żamett (Albertas Žametas, 1821-1876), 1872, National Museum of Art in Kaunas. Purchased in 1931 in Kaunas from the collection of Count Alfred Tyszkiewicz.
The neo-Gothic palace in Astrashytski Haradok, Belarus, also known as Gródek Ostroszycki in Polish, was built in 1855 on the site of an old wooden manor. The inventory of 1650 describes a wooden castle with defensive walls and four corner towers surrounded by an artificial moat and ponds.
The new palace burned down in 1860, but was rebuilt before 1876. It housed a valuable art collection of the Tyszkiewicz family. Among them were a large unspecified original by Holbein and two paintings of religious content, one attributed to Raphael, the other to François Boucher, as well as forks by 19th-century French and Belgian painters (after "Dzieje rezydencji na dawnych kresach Rzeczypospolitej …" by Roman Aftanazy, Volume 1, p. 64). The palace was most likely destroyed during World War II.
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