Czartoryski's Palace in pulawy (Puławy)

 palace, science, research

From the 17th century the Palace in Puławy was the location of a rural residence of the Lubomirski, then the Sieniawski, noble families. In 1784 it became the property of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife Izabela Czartoryska, née Fleming. Under their stewardship, after the loss of Poland's independence in 1795 the palace became a museum of Polish national memorabilia and a major cultural and political center. After the suppression of the November Uprising of 1830-1831, the estate was taken over by the Russian government. The palace collections that had been saved became the nucleus of the present Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.
In 1869 an Agricultural and Forestry Institute was founded in Puławy. One of its first students, briefly, was the future Polish writer Bolesław Prus (who had spent part of his childhood in Puławy). One of its scientist - Viktor Dokutchayew layed first basics for modern soil science.
At present the palace still serves scientific purposes as an abode of the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute - a successor of XIX century Russian Institute.