As Leonas Daumantas, the cook of the manor, told, M.K. Čiurlionis loved to be in nature: he was particularly fond of the park of the manor, its ponds with turtles, and the pheasantry with the pheasants and the tame roe deer that came running in at the time of their feeding. Čiurlionis loved to admire the feathers of the pheasants and pat the back of the deer when it came running.

When Čiurlionis left Plungė (1894), the pheasant keeper Andžejus Kotoviakas came to see him off with a beautiful live escort of pheasants, peacocks and a tame doe.

This place of the park was not forgotten in later years when M. K. Čiurlionis, already married to Sofija, stayed with her uncle, priest Vincentas Jarulaitis, in the parsonage (1909), and every day, while taking a walk in the surroundings of Plungė, in the park, they would also pass by the former pheasant house (which had already been dismantled in 1909).

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Site of the former pheasantry

Site of the former pheasantry

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