Targowica Confederates - Stanis Aw August Poniatowski, Stanis Aw Szcz Sny Potocki, Jozef Kossakowski, Jozef Ankwicz, Adam Naruszewicz (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stanis aw August Poniatowski, Stanis aw Szcz sny Potocki, Jozef Kossakowski, Jozef Ankwicz, Adam Naruszewicz, Piotr O arowski, Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Ignacy Jakub Massalski, Szymon Marcin Kossakowski, Seweryn Rzewuski, Jacek Ma achowski, Micha Jerzy Mniszech, Fryderyk Jozef Moszy ski, Jozef Zabie o, Aleksander Micha Sapieha, Ludwik Tyszkiewicz. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Stanisaw II August Poniatowski (born Count Stanisaw Antoni Poniatowski; 17 January 1732 12 February 1798) was the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (176495). He was the son of Count Stanisaw Poniatowski, Castellan of Krakow, and Princess Konstancja Czartoryska; brother of Micha Jerzy Poniatowski, (178494), Primate of Poland; and uncle to Prince Jozef Poniatowski, (17631813). English translation of the Polish text of the 1791 Constitution: "Stanisaw August, by the grace of God and the will of the people King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Duke of Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlasie, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernihiv." Election of Stanisaw August Poniatowski (detail), Bernardo Bellotto. Abduction of King Stanisaw August, 1771.Poniatowski was born in 1732 at Woczyn, (now Belarus). By the age of twenty, in 1752, as a Sejm deputy, he had attracted attention with his oratory. He owed his career ultimately, however, to his family connections with the powerful Czartoryski Family, who in 1755 sent him to Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, in the service of British ambassador Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams. The same year, through the influence of Russian Empress Elizabeth and Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin, he joined the Russian court as ambassador of Saxony. At Saint Petersburg he met the twenty-six-y...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=350061