Chornomyn Palace

The complex sits as a rectangular, two-storey brick house executed in late classical style. The layout centers on a sequence of rooms aligned along a main axis, with a large central hall serving as the building’s focal point. The north-facing front includes a projecting semicircular section capped by a high plinth and an Ionic colonnade of eight columns, while the garden-facing frontage is dominated by a six-column Ionic portico.

The central hall originally opened into a succession of salons and reception rooms. Above the main reception space a dome once rose, painted with a scene that included four horses harnessed together and three dancing nymphs in classical dress. The hall contained niches for sculpture and an oak staircase leading to the second floor. A library was fitted with built-in cupboards and was furnished with paintings, bronze clocks and lamps, antique carpets, two large Chinese vases and several large Japanese vases.

Much of the surviving ornamental plasterwork dates to the late nineteenth-century rebuilding; the older decorative layers are only partially visible. Interior movement was organized through a large entrance hall that led directly into the aligned rooms, with richly modelled ceiling plaster and decorative overdoor panels framing many of the principal spaces. Conversion to school use altered the original arrangement of rooms.

The 1890s addition takes the form of an elongated rectangular block in neo-Renaissance manner, linked to the older house by a short passage and planned around a corridor. Both the original block and the later wing rise two storeys. A substantial carriage house was recorded historically but no longer survives. The principal building remains heavily devastated, while the main block functions as the village school and the former service wing serves as the local hospital. The site is entered in the State Register of National Cultural Heritage.