In this room, one can sense the breath of history. On the ceiling and parts of the walls, you can see what restorers uncovered after removing the layers of Soviet-era paint that had covered the original artwork. A magnificent ceiling painting was revealed, featuring complex decorative accents: rosettes in the center and bold, stately blue Neoclassical motifs in the corners. Each of the four corners features a composition incorporating motifs associated with Hermes. The upper walls are adorned with a frieze, pilasters frame the corners, and a dado runs beneath the windows; the wall surfaces themselves are painted to create the illusion of luxurious wallpaper or drapery. One can even discern depictions of Roman columns. Landscape compositions appear above the doorways. This was one of the palace’s most prestigious rooms—the masters’ dining room. It was only in the second half of the 19th century that the Žurauskis family tore up and sold the beautiful parquet flooring that once lay here. Later, before the church in Adomynė was built, the estate’s final owner, Adomas Vilėniškis, allowed people to gather here for prayer, as a chapel had been set up in the room.

The room was heated by an ornate stove made of large, white glazed tiles and topped with a decorative plaster „crown.” While the original ornaments had crumbled away—their remnants are now preserved at the Kupiškis Ethnographic Museum—restorers used them as models to cast new ones. Remarkably, the authentic metal firebox door and the stove dampers have survived in excellent condition. History also gazes out from a painting hanging on the wall: we see how the manor had fallen into disrepair during the Soviet era, in the 1960s and 1970s. There are fallen shutters, crumbling porches, a staircase tacked onto the veranda above the masonry arcade, a doorway cut into the wall to access an apartment, a barn set up between the white semicircular arches, and a livestock stable in the cellar…

On opposite walls, facing one another, hang the portraits of the Vilėniškis family members: Adomas, the last master of the manor, sitting proudly with a book in hand amidst the flowers at that same preserved table on the cozy veranda; and his nephew, the priest and canon Juozapas, celebrating his priestly jubilee, adorned with a wreath of oak leaves and a radiant white lily upon his head. It is they who bequeathed to us their name and a house of prayer.