Subtitle:

Russia and the Partition Sejm : (Warsaw 1772-1775) (English summary title)

Contributor:

Bazyl, Ewa : Index ; Waluga, Grażyna : Transl.

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

Bibliography s. 311-322. Index. ; 330 p. ; 21 cm ; Summary in English.

Abstract:

The book investigates the problem of foreign interference in the internal affairs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the time of the fi rst partition. It studies the degree of the Commonwealth’s dependence and the struggle of its elites to keep the last bit of sovereignty. The book focuses on Russia’s policy towards Poland, for Russia was the most powerful neighbour of the Commonwealth and had a decisive influence on its fate in the eighteenth century. The most important research objective is the description of the principles, purposes and mechanisms of Russian interference in internal affairs of the Commonwealth. The narrative begins in mid-1771 and continues to the end of the Warsaw Sejm session in April 1775 that ratified the first partition of the Commonwealth through the conclusion of separate treaties with Russia, Prussia and Austria. Most attention is devoted to the diplomatic mission of the Russian ambassador in Warsaw, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg. In September 1772 he was sent to Warsaw to carry out the act of partition. The fundamental source material is provided by the Russian diplomatic correspondence preserved in manuscripts in the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (Arkhiv vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Imperii) in Moscow and partly published in the Sbornik Imperatorskogo Russkogo Istoricheskogo Obshchestva (Collections of the Imperial Russian Historical Society). Additional research was conducted in the Geheimes Staatsarchiv, Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) in Berlin, in the Haus- Hof- und Staatsarchiv (the Austrian State Archives) in Vienna. and in Polish archives and libraries. A vast literature on the subject has been consulted as well.

Detailed Resource Type:

Book

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:62262 ; 978-83-63352-57-8

Source:

click here to follow the link ; IH PAN, call no. I.10367 ; IH PAN, call no. I.10366 Podr.

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open