Museum
Monrepos Manor House
- Mo
- Geschlossen
- Di
- Geschlossen
- Mi
- 10:00–17:00
- Do
- 10:00–17:00
- Fr
- 10:00–17:00
- Sa
- 10:00–17:00
- So
- 10:00–17:00
- Öffnungszeiten
- The Manor House is open Wednesday to Sunday; Monday and Tuesday are closed. The park has separate seasonal opening hours.
- Preis
- Manor House museum admission: adults RUB 100; ages 16–18 and pensioners RUB 50; under 16 free.
- Besuchshinweise
- The Manor House ticket is separate from the park admission ticket. Animals are not allowed inside the museum-reserve grounds.
- Öffnungszeiten
- Ticket nötig
- Öffnungszeiten
- Etwa 90 Min.
Warum der Umweg sich lohnt
Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay wrote his 1804 poetic guide to the estate in his study here, turning the house and surrounding park into a single literary composition. After wartime upheaval it served as a military rest home and kindergarten, suffered a serious fire in 1989, and was restored in 2017–2022; its permanent museum exhibition opened on January 22, 2025.
Monrepos Manor House is a hidden gem museum located in Vyborg, Russia. It is renowned for its extensive English landscape park and its historical significance as a former baronial estate.
Die Menschen hinter dieser Adresse
Belegte Verbindungen, keine Promi-Anekdoten.
Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay
He lived in the manor and wrote the poem "The Estate of Monrepos in Finland, 1804" in his study.
Giuseppe Antonio Martinelli
The retired Hermitage curator and family friend designed the late-18th-century enlargement and Palladian appearance of the house.
Was sonst in der Nähe liegt
Die nächstgelegenen Orte, über die wir geschrieben haben, mit Luftlinie von hier.
50 m
Monrepos Library Wing
This modest wing eventually housed the Nicolays' collection of more than 9,000 volumes, one of the largest private libraries in the Grand Duchy of Finland. Its nucleus was the romantically named "Library of Two Friends," begun by Ludwig Nicolay and Franz Hermann Lafermière as students; the collection was later given to the University of Helsinki on condition that it remain undivided.
100 m
The Finnish Independence Monument in Monrepos
A monument commemorating Finland's independence, featuring a granite lion sculpture.
100 m
Monrepos Greenhouse Complex
Nicolay noted extensive greenhouses even before purchasing Monrepos in 1788, and later gardeners coaxed peaches, apricots, mirabelle plums and espaliered fruit from the northern climate. Repeatedly rebuilt and drastically altered in the 1920s, the complex was reconstructed during the recent restoration and again serves the working life of the estate.
150 m
Tea Pavilion
The late-19th-century pavilion disappeared around the middle of the 20th century and was rebuilt on its original foundation in 2002 using photographs because no drawings survived. Its recovered Romantic view later became a film set for a love scene in Eldar Ryazanov's 2006 Hans Christian Andersen drama "A Life Without Love."
150 m
Broglie Obelisk
A marble obelisk commemorating the Broglie brothers, who died in the Napoleonic Wars.
200 m
Monrepos Entrance Gates
The Nicolays' neo-Gothic gates disappeared in the 1950s and were reconstructed in 1982, but Soviet-era circumstances meant that the family's coat of arms was omitted. Restoration in 2017–2022 returned both the heraldic emblem and the metal wicket, restoring the entrance's explicitly aristocratic identity.
Mit den Geschichten ablaufen
Diese Adresse ist eine Station von vielen. Unsere Routen und Quests verbinden sie zu einem Weg, der vor Ort aufgeht.