Grodno. Stanislavovo estate.

The central place of the Stanislavovo estate is occupied by the palace building, rising on the top of a gentle slope. In front of the palace on both sides on the lower terrace of the slope there are rectangular in plan one-story side wings under high hipped, once tiled, roofs, forming a cour d'honneur - a ceremonial courtyard in front of the palace building. It is separated from the outside space by a fence with a gate. Once on both sides of the massive brick gates there were openings for wickets, crowned with arched ceilings, now such an architectural element on the right side is lost, there are no gate leaves and wickets, only their curtains look out from the stone.

The residence is rectangular in shape, the central part of which connects several rooms (the state rooms and the vestibule). The vestibule has several corner stoves made of black marble in the traditions of the neo-Gothic style. Previously, the palace amazed with its interior splendor. The walls were decorated with mythological paintings, and the ceilings impressed with their relief decoration - stucco. The dance hall was covered with artistic parquet, which was destroyed during the First World War. A long beautiful alley, popularly called the "alley of love", ran from the city to Stanislavovo. There is a legend that the king himself liked to while away his time here, in the shade of the linden trees. On the sides of the main building there are outbuildings under high hipped roofs. Above the window openings there are arched and triangular sandriks. The central façade is highlighted by a semi-circular bay window, on the attic of which the king's monogram SAR has been preserved - an abbreviation of Stanislaus Augustus Rex (Stanislaus Augustus, King). There were also outbuildings near the manor house.

The Stanislavovo estate is adjacent to a park, the dominant feature of which was the main access linden alley. The park itself initially had a radial-beam layout, but in the second half of the 19th century the park was converted into a landscape park: instead of rectangular alleys, a winding road-path network with views of the park landscapes appeared. Several old linden trees, growing during the life of Stanislav August, have survived to this day.

After the death of Stanislav August and the annexation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the Russian Empire, Catherine II gave Stanislavovo to General Ruban, who in 1814 resold it to Prince Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki. The estate belonged to the Drucki-Lubecki family until the beginning of World War II.

In 1953, the Stanislavovo estate in Grodno became the property of the Grodno Agricultural Institute. From that time on, the estate's territory underwent its first and most radical change in its entire history. The estate's boundaries were blurred, the buildings were significantly reconstructed, the development was compacted and new objects were added. During the Soviet era, the administration cared little about historical architectural monuments, since the area was being built up with modern houses. The only thing one could count on was cosmetic repairs. Despite this, even the outbuildings survived, which can still be found among the Soviet multi-story buildings of the same type, wandering around the neighborhood.

In 2007, they decided to reconstruct the palace and park complex, and in 2011, a modernization project appeared. The main task was to preserve the original appearance of the building, park and alleys. The central building and the eastern wing are currently used as buildings of the Grodno State Agrarian University. The Department of Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Meadow Farming and the Department of Plant Growing are located there.

In front of the entrance to the former royal country residence, a monument to Ivan Michurin was erected in Soviet times, around which apple trees of varieties bred by this world-famous biologist and breeder were planted. Behind the western wing are outbuildings from the late 19th – early 20th centuries, erected on the site of a farmyard from the late 18th century.