The front
Red brick.
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Ruzhany Palace is a ruined palace complex in the village of Ruzhany, in western Belarus. From the 16th to the 19th century it was the main seat of the senior line of the noble Sapieha family, and today it is being rebuilt step by step. Lew Sapieha began his castle here in the late 16th century, and the palace was finished in 1602. It was destroyed in 1700 in an internal conflict, then rebuilt in the 1770s by Aleksander Michal Sapieha as a Neoclassical palace, designed by the architect Jan Samuel Becker in an English landscape park. It later became a textile mill and burned in 1914. You see high red brick walls with empty windows and a large central front topped with a pediment, above a green lawn crossed by a dirt path. In front stands a restored white gate with columns and a small statue, and a restored entrance building holds a small museum with old furniture. It is about 211 km from Minsk in a straight line, and about 18 km from Kosava Castle. The UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to Belarus, so read the current advice before any planning.
Red brick.
White and restored.
Old furniture.
Village of Ruzhany, Brest region, Belarus
The noble Sapieha family.
Yes, the UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to Belarus.