This fragment comes from the "Geometrinis specialus... Lentvario dvaro planas" (Special Geometric Plan of the Lentvaris Manor, Trakai District, Vilnius Governorate), drawn up on 30 November 1891 by surveyor M. Nastopka. It is the most precise surviving map of the estate from that period — every building, road, pond, even an island in the lake, is marked with its own number. Archival source: CVIA, F. 526, Ap. 14, B. 590. Published in: Balėnaitė, L. Lentvario dvaras. Istoriniai tyrimai.
The plan reveals just how self-sufficient and complex a late-19th-century manor economy was: beside the palace (1) stood no fewer than three greenhouses — summer, winter, and new (3a, 4, 5) — along with its own vineyard with a wooden outbuilding (12–13), a lime kiln (7), a stone water mill (27), and, across the stream, its own nail factory. Nearby stood the manager's and administration houses (15–16), stables, barns, and servants' quarters — a small town in itself, serving the palace.
Numbered on the plan: 1 – palace; 2 – park with a small house; 3 – road; 3a – summer orangery; 4 – winter orangery; 5 – new orangery; 6 – smokehouse; 7 – lime kiln; 8 – yard by these buildings; 9, 10 – orchards; 11 – thicket between the orangery and the lake; 12 – vineyard; 13 – wooden vineyard outbuilding; 14 – tower; 15 – manager's house; 16 – administration house; 17, 18 – stables; 19 – stone sheds; 20 – wooden sheds; 21, 22 – barns; 23, 24 – wooden servants' houses; 25 – illegible in the source; 26 – barn with outbuildings; 27 – stone water mill; 28 – yard; 29 – road; 30 – ditch; 31 – small pond; 391 – a dugout beyond the nail factory, across the stream; 414, 415, 416 – lakes; 417, 418, 419 – islands in the lake.
The animation brings this hand-coloured surveyor's plan to life — letting you look at the whole estate as though photographed from a bird's-eye view.