A house that has stood here for three hundred years
There has been a home on this spot since the 17th century. Mazelejas was once one of the smaller estates belonging to Kroņvircava manor — the same manor that belonged to the mistress of Duke Peter of Courland.
What remains from that time is the park, the oak avenue, and a quiet that is hard to find now. The house has been restored so that the old stays visible: timber floors, stained glass in the doors, a tiled stove. And so that everything else works the way a guest expects today.
Ielejas, once the Mazelejas manor, is like another child to me. Children come to us with an enormous wish to blossom, to grow, to learn and to reach their potential. It has been the same with Ielejas. When my parents bought the house from its long-time owner Elza Bilina in the early 1990s, it was a gloomy, dark, worn-out place, tired from being tramped through by countless collective-farm workers, where only its spaciousness, the beautiful park and a few antiques quietly whispered of past splendour. Fully in the care of my family and me since 2017, the house has slowly come back to life and is healing the scars of the past, making room for family gatherings, events, children's chatter and the joy of being together.
