Józef Tyszkiewicz-Łohojski (1835 - 1891)

Born 8 Nov 1835 in Vilna, Vilna Uyezd, Vilna, Russian Empire

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Died 26 May 1891 at age 55 in Kretinga, Telshi Uyezd, Kovno, Russian Empire

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Biography

Juozapas Tiškevičius (Polish: Józef Tyszkiewicz) was a Lithuanian nobleman, count of the coat of arms of Leliva, military figure of the Russian Empire, landowner, landlord, and investor.

He came from the second Biržai branch of the Tiškevičius family of Lithuanian nobles. His father was Juozaps Mykolas Tiškevičius and his mother Ona Zabielaitė. He grew up in Trakai Vokė, Valažine, in Lahoiska, the cradle of the Tiškevičius family of the Counts of Lithuania, and studied at the St. Petersburg Paz Corps and military school.

On June 29, 1860 in Barbarova (Belarus), he married Sofija Horvataitė. They had 12 children, of whom 5 sons and 3 daughters grew up.

After becoming an officer of the army of the Russian Empire, he was assigned to the 1st Sumy Hussar Regiment stationed in Vilnius, and served as an adjutant to Vilnius Governors General Ilya Bibikov and Vladimir Nazimov.

He inherited the estate of Izabelin near Valažin and the estate of Palanga with the estates of Palanga, Darbėnai and Grūšlaukka. He acquired Lentvaris, Užutrakis, Kairenai, Kretinga, Pašėtė (Lithuania), Dunilovići, Osoviec, Svidno, Lelčice (Belarus) and other estates.

In total, he owned 27 estates in the governorates of Vilnius, Minsk, Kaunas and Curonian Spit, which yielded the highest income. He earned a lot from the export of forest material. He founded a resort with a Kurhaus, health centers and baths.

In Vilnius, he lived on Trakai street, in a house belonging to his wife. The country family established their residence in the Lentvaris manor, where they lived by the lake from 1855 to 1865.

After 1875 he moved his residence to Kretinga. In it, he reconstructed the palace, presented an orangery, where he founded one of the largest private Winter Gardens in Europe. In 1882, he introduced the first telephone line in the palace, connecting Kretinga with the palaces of Duke Mykolas Oginskis of Plunge and Duke Bogdan Oginskis of Rietava to light the winter garden in 1883. He opened the first power plant in Lithuania. In 1884 he built the first brick bridge in Kretinga, connecting the manor with the monastery.

The representative halls of the palace were decorated with antique, mainly Empire-style furniture, paintings by François Boucher, Anthony van Dyck and other Western European artists. Only the furniture in the white hall was Louis XV, the large dining room - Art Nouveau, and the small dining room - pseudo-Gdansk style. In the chapel of the palace hung the painting "Four Evangelists" by artist Valentin de Boulogne, "Madonna" painted by an unknown Italian artist in the 17th century, stations of the Cross painted on boards and brought from Italy, and painting "Ecce Homo" by an unknown author. The count brought this painting back from St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Vilnius, very cherished and considered miraculous. The great dining room had 3 large tapestries of religious content.

The palace had a collection of numismatics, a collection of hunting trophies, a portrait gallery of famous members of the family, where you could see the portraits of Vosylius Tiškovićius, the founder of the Logoisk branch, Mykolos Tiškevichius, the founder of the Biržai line, Antanas Tiškevichius, lieutenant general of the LDK army, Mikalojus Tiškevichius, canon of Vilnius, Jonas Tiškevichius, the owner of Biržai, and others.

The count remodeled the park, which was created by German park architect Johan Laras, manor surveyor Jonas Shostaks and gardener Ludvikas Haiduks and surveyor Vladislaus Shostak.

The park had a geometric plan, divided into 4 rectangles by avenues of cut linden trees, with a fountain in the middle. Introduced trees and ornamental shrubs, flower gardens, gazebos and ancient sculptures were growing in the park. 3 cascading ponds were installed in the northern part. At the pond in front of the palace, a waterfall was prepared, a hill for the gazebo was poured, and huge stones-benches were built. In the second pond, the courtiers liked to swim, go boating, and sit on an island filled with water. The manor hospital and shelter building stood next to it.

The park and the garden were called the Summer Garden. In the summer, a military Cossack played there, and from 1884 to 1891 - manor orchestras. Its core consisted of Czech and Hungarian servants with professional musicianship who came with their families from Austria-Hungary.

Juozapas Tiškevičius invested part of his capital in industry and trade, founded a steam mill in Vilnius, built a wire and nail factory in Lentvary, a brickyard and a port in Palanga, from which the count's steamship "Feniksas" ferried bricks and agricultural products to Liepaja, and vacationers from Liepaja.

The count was a member of the Children's Shelter Care Society of Kaunas Governorate.

He died in Kretinga and was buried in Palanga. On his last trip to Kretinga, he was taken on a hearse pulled by four black-clad horses. The coffin was placed in the parish cemetery of St. George's chapel. in 1893 after his son Alexander built a family chapel in the cemetery according to the project of the Swedish architect Karol Eduard Strandman, the remains were moved to its basement.

Sources

• https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juozapas_Ti%C5%A1kevi%C4%8Dius_II
• https://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b/7.857.63