The paper speaks of four prominent men from Inner Carniola., all born in the village of Slavina in the Pivka basin. Later on, it describes the architecture and sculpture of the palace and mausoleum of the Trieste trader, landowner, art collector and great patron, Franc Kalister, who had inherited half of immense estate of his late uncle Janez Nepomuk Kalister. Franc Kalister left two remarkably valuable historic-cultural monuments in Trieste: a magnificent palace designed by the Trieste architect Giuseppe Scalmanini, and a mausoleum in the Trieste cemetery of St. Anna that his son Viktor Kalister had built on the design of the Croatian sculptor Ivan Rendic. The tomb contains a marble portrait statue of Franc Kalister and a bronze statue of his wife Ivana Kalister, both carved by Rendic.