The Stanisław August Library in Kozienice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.1981.398Keywords:
the Kozienice Library, Stanisław August Poniatowski, royal book collections, the Stanisław August Poniatowski library, sources to the history of libraries, Kozienice.Abstract
The Stanisław August Palace in Kozienice was built in the late Baroque style, however, its turbulent history gradually blurred the traces of its original splendor. Plundered in 1794, it served as military barracks in the years 1815-1830, and since 1831 it belonged to general Ivan Den and his family. It lost its classicist architectural decoration in the years 1896-1900 when it was rebuilt in the then fashionable French Renaissance style. It was destroyed during World War II. The article discusses a cabinet library of Stanisław August the king, which has not been described in any monograph so far. The author referred to its handwritten catalogue of 1785, stored in the Czartoryski Library. This short document (consisting of 7 pages), written by a man named Smoczeński, included 149 works in 349 volumes. It is enclosed in the article.
