The manor house in Andrushivka (Andruszowka in Polish) was probably built in the late 1700s by the Jakubowski family. It's known that the count Michal Jakubowski of Ostrawia bought the village of Andrushivka in the year of 1780. The previous owner was the bishop of Poznan and Polish crown chancellor (1772-1774): Andrzej Stanislaw Mlodziejowski (1716-1780). He in turn had bought the village from the prince Marcin Lubomirski (c1738–1811) who had inherited it from his father prince Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski (c1710–1761).

It's possible that Michal Jakubowski or his son Fortunat built the original part of the manor that is still to be seen today. This manor is believed to have been the western part of the present building. It was symmetrical with a higher building in the middle with two smaller wings on the sides.

Fortunat's daughter Dorota married Wladyslaw Kolyszko-Denis. He was born in 1804 as a son of the general Benedykt Kolyszko-Denis and Teresa Cieplinska. Dorota got the village of Andrushivka as a dowry from the parents. Their daughter Helena Kolyszko-Denis (1825–1894) married at a young age in 1842 to the count Stanislaw Tadeusz Jaroslaw Tyszkiewicz (1829–1872). He was a son of the count Henryk Jerzy Wincenty Tyszkiewicz
(1792–1854) and Eufrozyna Szolajska who owned the neighbouring village of Ocheretnya (Oczeretnia in Polish).

The Tyszkiewicz family in Andrushivka

Stanislaw was a nobility marshal in Uman county. He and Helena now settled in Andrushivka. Stanislaw and Helena had three sons: Henryk (1847–1917), Benedykt (1849–1939) and Michal (1857–1930).

The oldest son Henryk was married in 1877 to Teresa Sobanska. She was a daughter of Piotr Sobanski and Hortensja Bozeniec-Jelowicka from the neighbouring village of Spychyntsi (Spiczynce in Polish). Henryk moved there where he soon rebuilt the old manor house. They had one son: Jozef Tadeusz Stanislaw Tyszkiewicz (1880–1944). Henryk died in Spychyntsi on May 22, 1917.

The other son, Benedykt, was married on November 28, 1885 to princess Maria Lubomirska (1860–1942). They built a new house in the northwestern part of Andrushivka that was called Zelena (Zielona in Polish). It was situated by a pond and was surrounded by a garden (which probably gave the name to the area since it means green). This manor house was completely destroyed during the civil war. Benedykt also owned a manor house in Berdychiv and a house in Kyiv. They had four sons: Andrzej Henryk Tyszkiewicz (1888–1955), Henryk Tyszkiewicz (1890–?), Benedykt Roman Tyszkiewicz (1897–?) and Eustachy Stefan Tyszkiewicz (1898–1968).

The youngest son, Michal, took over the manor house in Andrushivka, but the other brothers still owned 1/3 or the estate that alltogether consisted of about 920 hectare land.

Michal was married on September 24, 1884 to Zofia Chelmicka (1858–1938). They had two sons: Jerzy (b. October 16, 1886 in Andrushivka, d. February 18, 1956 in Poznan, Poland) and Stanislaw (who was a Jesuit and spent most of his life in the Vatican).

After Michal had taken over the manor house he started to rebuild it. He added two buildings to the east of the old one and moved the old entrance to this newer part. At the same time he also changed the old part so that the old main building was transformed into an oval ballroom that was called the Gobelin hall because of the gobelins that was hanging on the walls. To the east of this room there was a rectangular hall that often was used as a billiard-room.To the west of the Gobelin hall there was a dining-hall, a drawing-room and a bedroom.

There also was a library with many rare books and a big collection of art by famous painters such as Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1851–1915), Leopold Horowitz (1838–1917), Adam Badowski (1857–1903), Julian Falat (1853–1929) and Jozef Pankiewicz (1866–1940). There also were older paintings of Michal's ancestors such as Stanislaw Antoni Tyszkiewicz (c1727–1801) dressed in Polish uniform and the White Eagle order as well as the Saint Stanislaw order, his son Jerzy Tyszkiewicz (1768–1831) dressed as a member of the Polish Sejm, Jerzy´s wife, princess Lucja Franciszka Lubomirska (1770–1811) and their son Henryk Tyszkiewicz (1792–1854) dressed as a lieutenant.

Paintings of Stanislaw and Jerzy Tyszkiewicz that once was hanging in the manor house in Andrushivka.

The manor house was situated in the middle of a park and from the balcony there was a beautiful view over the ponds. The manor as well as the whole village was known as a green oasis thrown on the Ukrainian black soil. Both the owners of the manor as the villagers were known for having big and nice gardens.

It's said that Michal built a sugar beat factory in Andrushivka that was situated in the western part of the village (Zelena). Most probably he also brought Polish workers to the village.

The February revolution in 1917 and the civil war years also affected Andrushivka. Count Michal ended up in Gniezno in Poland, where he died on August 3, 1930.

After the revolution the Tyszkiewicz manor house in Andrushivka was taken over by the village kolkhos and used as an administrative building and for grain storage. The manor house wasn't destroyed during World War II, but fell into decay after the 1960s when the kolkhos stopped using the building. But it wasn't until the early 1990s when some people in the village started to destroy the roof and that have led to the ruin that is there today.

The castle in Andrushivka

But even before the present manor house was built in Andrushivka there existed a castle in the village. The picture above was taken about 1914 and shows how it looked like at that time. It was then used as a storing house after it had been rebuilt by Michal Tyszkiewicz in the late 1800s. Today nothing is left of this castle.

Nothing is known for sure who built this castle. But some sources say it was the noble family of Kuczohorsky that built it in the 1500s and that the village grew around it. This unknown noble family is said to have died out already in the 1500s and from 1586 a prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1527–1608) should have owned the village. His granddaughter Zofia Ostrogska (d.1622) was married to prince Stanislaw Lubomirski (1583–1649). They were grandparents of prince Antoni Benedykt Lubomirski that is mentioned above as an owner of the village during the 1700s.