Daremne starania: klienci Karola Stanisława Radziwiłła i ich zabiegi o ochronę dóbr patrona przed Szwedami i wojskami Leszczyńskiego w latach 1706—1709
Futile Efforts: Clients of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł and Their Efforts to Protect the Patron’s Property from the Swedes and Leszczyński’s Army in the Years 1706—1709

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the efforts made by Karol Stanislaw Radziwiłł, the Grand Chancellor ofLithuania, and his clients to protect his estates from the Swedish and Polish armies. There is no doubtthat Radziwiłł’s transition from the camp of supporters of Augustus II to the pro-Stanislav party in1706 was due to his desire to prevent his estates from being destroyed by the Swedish army. He senthis residents to the court of the new monarch to represent his interests. Among their tasks was thatof the protection of Radziwiłł’s estates from military quartering, contributions and robberies carriedout by both the Swedes and Leszczyński’s Polish supporters. The residents’ interventions, however,were unsuccessful. The Swedish commanders treated the exploitation of wealth as a wartime necessityand did not keep their promise to limit contributions and requisitions. Dependent on the Swedishmilitary power, king Stanislaus was helpless in the face of the destruction wrought by the Swedes. Theefforts made by the residents were thus little more than demonstrations of the Radziwiłł’s dedicationas Leszczyński’s supporter.

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