Początki sejmu 1773 roku w relacjach Jana Nepomucena Chęckiego oraz w anonimowych wileńskich diariuszach z LMAVB i LVIA. O kryteriach oceniania rzeczywistości przez współczesnych
The Beginnings of the 1773 Sejm in the Accounts of Jan Nepomucen Chęcki and in the Anonymous Vilnius Diaries of the LMAVB and LVIA. On the Criteria of Evaluating Reality by Contemporaries

Author(s): Dariusz Rolnik
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Stanisław August; first partition of Poland; Adam Poniński; Tadeusz Rejtan; Samuel Korsak; elites of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the face of the first partition
Summary/Abstract: The critical edition of sources relating to the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, together with a slightly provocative introduction, may stimulate research on the moral and ethical conditions of the Polish elites of that period, and may also be inspiring for those interested in political thought during the reign of Stanisław August. The text shows the receipt and the opinion for the important events in the Polish-Lithuanian state, which cannot be simply classified as positive or negative. These events are much more complicated and require a more comprehensive framework, one that, based on the records, the direct observers of these events had.

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