A farmer restores the mansion where the heir to the throne hid (VIDEO)
When we visited Šiauliai District for two days and were looking for accommodation, we chose Blankenfelde Manor, which is being restored by Latvian farmer Raimonds Rukeris.
The first mention of the manor was in 1426, 16 years after the Battle of Žalgiris. The manor itself was built in 1743, and as fate would have it, it was not so long ago that the family of Raimonds Ruker bought it at auction.
In the early 19th century, it was the temporary home of Louis XVIII, the heir to the throne, who was in hiding from the French Revolution. We talked to him about how he managed to buy the court at auction. Especially as the farmer, who used to grow potatoes and run a dairy farm, knows a number of Lithuanian horse breeders himself.
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