Kavantholm was a
manor house with a history dating back to the 16th century. It was first owned by Måns Nilsson till Ahtis, the
vogt of the
Vyborg Castle. In 1562 the king
Eric XIV of Sweden granted to manor it to the
stadtholder Bertil Göransson Mjöhund. Later in the 16th and 17th centuries it was owned by the noble families of
Stubbe,
Skalm and
Taube and since 1658 by
Henrik von Rehbinder. After Rehbinder's death in 1680, the manor was returned to the Crown. As the
Old Finland was ceded to
Russia in 1721, Kavantholm was granted to the captain Ivan Menshoi Shuvalov. After his son
Ivan Shuvalov died in 1797, Kavantholm was sold to the Russian merchant Alexandr Olhin and after his death in 1815 to the count
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. In 1848 Mannerheim sold the manor to the general major Alexander Adam Thesleff. The last owner was his grandson Nikolai Julius Thesleff. In the 1918
Finnish Civil War Battle of Antrea, Kavantholm served as the
Red Guards headquarters. During the
World War II, the staff of the Finnish Army IV Corps was housed in Kavantholm. The manor was destroyed in the Soviet
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in 1944. == References ==