Raudonė Castle

Raudonė was a royal manor, which Grand Duke Sigismund II August gave to Prussian merchant Krispin Kirschenstein.

The 18th-century owners of the Raudonė estate, the Olędzki (Olendskiai) family, members of Szlachta (Polish-Lithuanian nobility), commissioned Laurynas Stuoka-Gucevičius to renovate the castle.

The next owner, the Russian Prince Platon Zubov, acquired the estate in the first half of the 19th century and his family transformed the castle yet again.

After the early death of Sophia, the castle belonged to her husband, later on to her only son, Joseph Carlo de Faria e Castro, and his wife Olga Kordashevski and their children Nikolai, Vladimir, and Alexander.

The castle is surrounded by an old park, in which rare trees grow: the silver fir, Swiss pine, grey walnut, line with nine trunks, Gediminas Oak.