Ogród w Warklanach - dzieło właściciela Michała Jana Borcha i architekta Vincenza de Mazottiego

Michał Jan Borch (1753-1811) was a dignitary of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, an amateur scientist in mineralogy and geology, a poet and a dramatist, as well as an art lover and an art patron. His major achievement was to create a palace-and-garden complex at Warklany (palace 1783-1789; now in Latvia), for which he employed the Italian architect Vincenzo de Mazotti. Borch described his residence in literary work titled Jardin sentimental du château de Warkland, dans La Comté de Borch, en Russie-Blanche, printed in Warsaw in 1795.