Witosławski Palace, Cherniatyn

The palace stands on a rectangular plan with a lower entrance pavilion and a tower finished with battlements, presenting façades in a neo‑Gothic idiom intended to emphasize vertical lines. The structure grew in stages: an original southern wing with a decorative romantic tower was later joined to an added western wing by an arcaded gallery, and an eastern wing was attached and subsequently raised in the Soviet period. The nineteenth-century exterior retains a high attic above the second floor and rectangular windows finished with pediments, while vertical openings take pointed Gothic shapes.

The principal approach retains granite steps that once led up to a central entry, where a pair of marble lions formerly flanked the route, each lion placing its right paw upon a heraldic shield bearing the owner’s coat of arms; many of those shields were destroyed in 1917, though some heraldic devices survive above the main entrance and inside the building. Massive gate pylons remain at the driveway, built of brick on a stone plinth, finished with plaster and set with dressed sandstone inserts along their full height. Beyond the gate the approach ran through an orchard and along two tree‑lined avenues, in places planted with horse chestnuts.

Inside, a three‑flight staircase gives access to the second floor and a number of historic fittings survive. The vestibule preserves a white‑grey checkerboard stone floor and a large fireplace‑stove decorated with heraldic grotesques and coats of arms; three central rosettes in the vestibule ceiling still contain heraldic details. Rooms contain Dutch tiled stoves and molded neo‑Gothic ceiling decoration. An antechamber is covered by an eight‑part rosette ceiling that incorporates heraldic shields. The principal hall retains a plaster cornice and an enfilade leads to a rounded living room adorned with a plaster frieze of garlands and satyr mascarons. Historic weapons, recorded among the interior contents, include sabers and flails.

The designed landscape remains legible despite the loss of many garden structures. The park, laid out by Dionizy Mikler, extended over an area recorded as roughly 31 hectares, though an alternate figure of 30 acres is also noted; it originally included a pond with a small lake and a possible cascade of linked ponds that survive now as a sequence of marshes. Former pavilions, gazebos and an orangery stood within the grounds but these garden buildings have been largely destroyed and the manor library was dispersed. Gate pylons and various interior and exterior heraldic fragments endure, while the eastern wing’s Soviet superstructure altered the original roofline and resulted in the loss of the historic pediment. Local oral tradition continues to assert an underground passage between house and park, a story preserved in community memory.