Diplomats of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Jan D Ugosz, Albert Brudzewski, Johannes Dantiscus, Stanis Aw August Poniatowski (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Jan D ugosz, Albert Brudzewski, Johannes Dantiscus, Stanis aw August Poniatowski, Micha Kleofas Ogi ski, Maciej Stryjkowski, Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Louis Littlepage, Marcin Kromer, Stanis aw Szcz sny Potocki, Zbigniew Ole nicki, Jan aski, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, Stanislaus Hosius, Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski, Stanis aw Poniatowski, Hieronymus Jaroslaw aski, Aleksander Korwin Gosiewski, Jerzy Radziwi, Jacob Theodor Klein, Roman Ignacy Potocki, Paulus Vladimiri, Andrzej Poniatowski, Ostap Dashkevych, Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac, Jakub Zadzik, Andrzej Jastrz biec, Alois Friedrich von Bruhl, Erazm Cio ek, Stanis aw Chom towski, Micha Stefan Radziejowski, Franciszek Ferdynant Lubomirski, Joachim Chreptowicz, Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Franciszek Bukaty, Krzysztof Grzymu towski, Antoni Augustyn Deboli. Excerpt: Stanis aw II August Poniatowski (born Count Stanis aw Antoni Poniatowski; 17 January 1732 - 12 February 1798) was the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-95). He was the son of Count Stanis aw Poniatowski, Castellan of Krakow, and Princess Konstancja Czartoryska; brother of Micha Jerzy Poniatowski, (1736-94), Primate of Poland; and uncle to Prince Jozef Poniatowski, (1763-1813). English translation of the Polish text of the 1791 Constitution: Stanis aw 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. Poniatowski was born in 1732 at Wo czyn, (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, i...