Leshchinsky Palace
Kharitonenko Palace, Leszczynski Palace
Ukraine, Sumy
The Kiyanitsky Palace-Estate was built in 1890 in the neo-Renaissance style by the Leshchinsky merchant family, who received Kiyanitsa, along with a sugar factory, as a legacy from the well-known businessman I. Kharitonenko. A two-storey palace with an elegant turret and an outbuilding nearby, located in a park on the banks of a pond. The park with an area of 55 hectares is a monument of landscape gardening art, in which more than 70 species of trees and shrubs grow: plane trees and ginkgoes, spruces and pines, lindens and maples, perennial oaks. After the October Revolution of 1917, the palace was looted and burned. After restoration, it was used as a camp site of all-Union significance "Kiyanitsa". Now the building is owned by the Sumy Agrarian University, its partial restoration has been carried out.