Ikonostas w cerkwi wojskowej w Kozienicach. Zabytek na tle dziejowym

In the National Museum in Krakow there is a project of the iconostasis made in watercolor on cardboard with signature MNK III-r.a. 18617. The handwritten inscription in its upper left corner says that it has been prepared in 1911 by the “Krzywicki and Morawski” company from Radom. This company was chosen to create the architectural structure of the oak-carved iconostasis to the Orthodox Church of the Protection of Virgin in Kozienice. This church on the Warsaw street in 1905-1906 was funded by the 25th Smolensk Regiment. After the transfer of troops, from the 1911 this Orthodox Church started function as a parish, and in 1915 was abandoned. In the following year it was the catholic church of The Queen of the Polish Crown, for Polish legionaries. After the a brief using by the Polish Catholics after the first world war, in the years 1938-1939 this degradable building was demolished. The project of the iconostas preserved in Krakow is a valuable source for research into the original interior of the Orthodox Church. Thanks to this project I could find fragments of the original iconostas and main altar in the church in Brzeźnica. Today, these fragments are the part of two retables: in the sanctuary and in the north chapel. In the oak structure of former iconostas preserved several of the original icons, which in conjunction with the architectural project allowed to recreate the original altar barrier program.