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Old manor house in the village of Perry belonged to an old family of Ratanov – Prussian noble family since the XVI century. In the seventeenth century the estate was inherited by Dominic Reitan, who decided to build a beautiful stone house in the classical style.

The following owners of the house began Alina and Jozef Guards. When they manor farm flourished, and the estate became one of the richest, but Jozef was ill and the doctors advised him to live in a stone house. So at the end of the XIX century on the site of the old stone house was built a new wooden one, framed in a very expensive material. The big house had a mansard floor and on the porch with carved columns was built terrace.

In the house were built of tile Dutch ovens, the floor was parquet, walls and ceilings were painted, and ceilings with hanging precious chandeliers. The house was an art gallery and hunter hall. Furnished house was expensive furniture.

This house is associated with the life and death of a prominent politician, diplomat and philosopher of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Tadeusz Miraculous, which tried to prevent the first section of the Commonwealth, and even to frustrate the diet. He lay on the floor in front of the deputies and uttered the historic phrase: "Kill me, don't kill the process. ". Deputies did not want to kill the Polish patriot, but agreed to the partition of the homeland. Recent years, Tadeusz Miraculous lived in one of the wings of ancestral estate, where he committed suicide.

Now the estate of Ratanov is in poor condition. The wooden house that was once the club is boarded up. Brick buildings used as stables barn. Also neglected is the ancestral chapel of Ratanov. Relatively well preserved only in the old Park with Linden alleys.

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