Mozaiki Baranovichskogo Pokrovskogo sobora
Illustrations and maps
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In the spring of 1921 in Baranavichy, a Belarusian city, which, under the Riga Peace Treaty of 1921, which ended the Soviet-Polish war, became part of Poland, the church of the local Orthodox community burned down. Around the same time, “work” began and ended in the mid-1920s on the demolition of Alexander Nevsky’s Orthodox church in Warsaw, which was distinguished by an unusually magnificent decoration. One more incident that happened in Baranavichy in the fall of 1931 was associated with these dramatic events - the consecration of the Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin, built on the site of the burned down one. The new church, with an almost thirty-meter bell tower, impressed not only with its size, but also with its decoration, in which several panels made using the mosaic technique played an important role. Those who once decorated the Warsaw temple that were recruited in the first decade of the 20th century by the mosaicists of the St. Petersburg workshop of V.A. Frolov based on sketches of famous Russian artists V.M. Vasnetsova, N.A. Bruni, V.I. Dumitrashko and N.A. Kosheleva.
