Palace Grokhol`skiy
The town Voronovitsa quite rich in historical monuments, but Grokhol`skiy palace is the most valuable and most interesting buildings in the city. Biography palace is impressive - there has been a Polish aristocracy, scientists, inventors and even Nazi intelligence.
History of the palace Grokhol`skiy
Voronovitsa became the property Grokhol`skiy rich Podolsk graphs landed in the middle of the 18th century. Franciszek Grocholski, the then owner of the town, it begins to build a palace-residence. Earl himself was a senior at what was then the court of the Polish king. Palace decided to build in the style of early classicism, author of the project by the architect Lorenz Hedonu. The style of the building is determined Italian influence - a palace with slightly curved side wings.
The family owned the palace Grokhol`skiy over a hundred years. Family vicissitudes and active participation in them then uprisings led to the loss of the estate. First grandson Franciszek Adolf Grokhol`skiy involved in the insurrection of 1831, which fails. As a result of his exiled to Siberia. However, the estate remained with their family and goes after a while his brother Lyudhartu. For participation in the Polish liberation uprising in 1863 Russian authorities still seizes property.
1865 estates in the commodity auction Odessa Exchange gained Nicholas Mozhajskij. And soon he tragically dies and the estate is populated Mozhajskij his brother Alexander, who went down in history as the first designer of the aircraft. After moving, he gets the post of judge of Bratslav, but devotes the rest of his experiments and inventions. Here he experimented over the birds, watching their flight, was making a lot of kites. Thus it came to the design of the first proto-glider, which he launched in the air horse-drawn, while at the same time planeruyuchy back of your machine in the air. Once through unstable structures he still fell, breaking his leg. And he did not stop and continued his studies in the estate. In 1876 he began to modeling the world`s first airplane, and at the same time moved to St. Petersburg.
The palace is owned Mozhaiskogo to the 1917 revolution. Then it turned into a building that was used in public view - whether as a school or as Aviation Museum. During the Second World War, the Palace was analytic-intelligence department of the General Staff of Land Forces of the Third Reich. Since 1971, the palace was opened Aviation Museum, which by the way is still functioning.
Interesting is the fate of a large collection of paintings by Grokhol`skiy kept at his residence. It is more than 500 works by French, Dutch and Flemish masters. Data on them are lost and what happened to them - is unknown.
What to see in the palace
The palace is the center of the estate, which it includes in addition to the park, economic structure that period, cellar and the water tower stylized romanticism. In the same residences 43 rooms, some even preserved historic interior - round and oval rooms. They Aviation Museum is located. The exhibits of the museum dedicated to the works of A. Mozhaiskogo his stay in Voronovitsa, formation and development of aviation in the world and contribute to this process in Ukraine.
How to get to the palace in Voronovitsa Grokhol`skiy
Voronovitsa The town is 20 km from the winery, where buses depart regularly. Also Voronovitsa can reach the railway station of the same name. A town road runs Vinnytsia - Uman.
Hours. In the Palace Grokhol`skiy is Voronovytskyy History Museum of Air and Space, is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 17:00. Please note that the museum is closed on weekends.
