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Karpatov Hall is an old military defence fort located at it's own province near the baltic sea within the border of Kaliningrad, Russia. Both to the north and to the south you can spot larger villages and smaller cities that still remain a pulsing center of Kalniningrad culture from both the middle ages and modern time. The province is a half-island, surrounded by water to the west and south, and the end of river Pregolya to the north. The climate is mild year-round, but being near the ocean will cause occational strong winds. Karpatov Hall was originaly a defence castle through the middle ages, but during the 17th and 18th century, the Karpatov family inhabitatet the half-island province and the half-island was through the 1800's folk-named as the Kapratov Province. Though the province in many ways had belonged to the Karpatov family for centuries, it was after World War II the Karpatov family formaly bought the defence castle from the russian government, making the province officially theirs, and the castle being the heart of their land. The defence castle was officially renamed to Karpatov Hall the 4th of November, 1947, the papers signed by no other than Josef Stalin. The original signed papers are decorating the wall at the General's Office within the center of the castle, second floor above the riding hall.

...THE KARPATOV PROVINCE...
1. Karpatov Hall, Main castle.
Where the Karpatov family lives, but also where staff and guests spend their night if the local hotels and ins are over-booked. It contains of endless corridors spread across 3 main floors. In the sea-direction, two towers add an additional three floors each

2. Karpatov Hall, Stable.
The stable are kept in it's original shape from when the cavallery used it during late 1800. The private stable contains 8 decent-sized boxes and two mae-foal boxes. The guest stable contain additionally 18 normal sized boxes. Everything is modernized to the extend there is electricity and running water, however the fascade remains untouched. There is storage rooms, toolshed and hayloft located in the same building.

3. Karpatov Hall, Riding Hall, General's Office.
Inside the first floor we find the riding hall with it's top-quality sand bedding. With dimentions measuring 45m * 70m it should provide enough space for several riders and schooling cliniques to share the hall at the same time. By both entrances are tribunes for people to sit down and passively participate in the events in the riding hall. The second floor houses the 'General's Office', however ''office'' is a misleading word. Even though the main stable office are located in the same fraction of the building, the General's Office is a large ball room. The ball room was previously used as a cantine for hungry soldiers in both war and peace time.

4. Karpatov Hall, Outdoor riding arena.
The outdoor riding arena are bedded with an exceptionally weather proof and drenage enhancing sand and rubber bedding. There will never be pits or soggy grounds after even the heaviest rainfalls, which can be intence this close to the coast. At each side of the entrance are tribunes for the audience, while at the short-side to the west are the judges panel where roofing can be put up on short notice should there be rainfall during competitions.

5. Karpatov Hall, Meadows and pastures.
Large, rich fields making perfect pastures for the horses in every kind of weather. A few trees in each meadow creates the shelter the horses needs during hot summer days or windy winter mornings. Each meadow are fenced with either local dark wood or dark grey bricks and electric wire on top, depending on the condition the original stone fences are in.

6. Karpatov Province, Lighthouse.
The light house is older than any book can tell, and has been rebuilt several times, so dating its true age remains close to impossible. However it remains highly operational and is today still being operated by local light house keepers.

7. Karpatov Province, Karpatov fields.
The Karpatov fields are one large flat field used for many purposes. Mainly for riding enjoyment or extra meadows during foaling season. However, if large competitions are hosted with multiple classes or a large number of guests and participants, the meadow are used for either warm ups, provisoric parking lot, or easy-built show stables.

8. Karpatov Province, Old Hanz' farm.
Old Hanz Baumeyer is the last remaining member of a prussian inhabitant family that lived next door to the Karpatovs. As he is of polish-german heritance, he has met a lot of prejudice for being jewish, also by the Karpatov family. This has made him a grumpy old man with no intention of ever being social with anyone beside his shepherd dog, 'Limpy', and the horses he train every now and then for local breeders. He doesn't run anything large scaled, living in powerty compared to the Karpatovs. His farm has seen it's better days, but as long as the welfare of Limpy and his horses are close to perfect, he doesn't mind walking around in filthy clothes, having a roof that leaks and a tractor as the only transportation veichle. He is also known to have a problem with drinking.

9. Karpatov Hall, The sand lakes.
Sand and calck stone mining was a big deal mid-70's at the Karpatov province, though the trend was very short-lived and last for less than 10 years and with red numbers as income. This failed project however created sandlakes. Every heavy rainfall, spring and autumn, these lakes refills with water, creating shallow lakes perfect for having a little swim or cool down horses after trail rides. The sand and calck stone mining was Hanz Baumeyer's last attempt at paying off his farm debt, but because of the failed finances, it was sold cheap to the Karpatov family so Hanz could pay off his debt.

10. Karpatov Hall, Dockyard and harbour.
A small-sized harbour that can dock small to medium-sized ships and boats. Belonging to the Karpatov family, when competitors send their horses across countries, a small fee can be paid to have their horses shipped by sea and river to the half-island on less time than it would take to drive the horses to Karpatov Hall. Quite often smaller fishing boats find safety within the harbour when there are storms further out on the sea.



Parts of this map are borrowed from google maps.
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