Historical calendar: anniversary of the death of Stanisław August Poniatowski. His death to this day has caused considerable controversy among researchers.
Today in our calendar we will look at the circumstances of the death of the last ruler of the Republic.
After Catherine's Tsaric's death in 1796, her son, Paul I. The fresh ruler broke completely with his mother's doctrine, seeking a thorough economical and military improvement of the state. In abroad politics, he chose the anti-Prussian line, in fact the anti-English line. 1 component of his policy was the release of Kościuszko and another Polish political prisoners and the invitation to St. Petersburg by Stanisław August Poniatowski. Paul considered him his natural father.
The erstwhile Polish king was greeted by the sons of Tsar Alexander and Constanta on the tolls of the city. Marble Palace. Paul I made serious plans for Poniatowski and had a number of conversations with him. There were no protocols, but after one, the Polish ex-king was to say to the servant: "A year or 2 and we return to Warsaw". These words were spoken in the sense that Poniatowski would one more time take the throne, with the support of Russia, which would aid to master the Prussian occupation. In a akin tone, the king was to talk with the Russian aristocracy and court officials.
Assuming that specified talks were actually conducted, it must be realised that Warsaw was then lying in the Prussian partition, and thus the taking over of power in it by Stanisław August Poniatowski from the time of Paul I, could only happen as a consequence of the Russian-Prussian war. This meant that Paul most likely intended to usage the French windstorm in Europe in order to retake control of the full erstwhile Polish lands by Russia in the form of a protectorate, akin to the rules on which Russia controlled Poland in the mid-18th century.
Poniatowski was to be only a propaganda veil of the action, just as Targowice erstwhile owned a Tsar military intervention. This plan, if at all, existed not only in Poniatowski's half-words, was thwarted by the death of the Polish king. On February 11, 1798 Poniatowski had a customary cup of broth early in the morning. It wasn't long before the king felt bad in his morning message reading. shortly the monarch abruptly fainted.
However, the rapidly called doctor was incapable to aid Stanisław August. shortly the bishop drove the Tsar Paul to court, who immediately arrived at the Marble Palace with his sons Alexander and Constanty.
However, the ruler of Russia was no longer allowed to exchange words with Poniatowski due to the fact that the king was inactive unconscious. The next day, February 12, 1798, at 8 a.m., the last ruler of the Republic of Both Nations, died without regaining consciousness. His court physician, Jan Bekler, found a stroke into his brain, but already for many circumstances of Poniatowski's death were highly suspicious.
Suspects only increased erstwhile Bekler dissected the body and stated that the most probable origin of death was poisoning with the aid of aqua tofana – a highly detectable, lethal suspension based on arsenic and mercury chloride.
Even despite the origin of the death of Stanisław Augustus, the unquestionably fact is that after his death the Polish concept fell and there was a change of alliances. Paul, a erstwhile sympathizer of the French Revolution, made an alliance with England and co-founded the Second Anti-French Coalition. However, he did not regulation long – he was murdered by conspirators in 1801. According to investigator Elizabeth Sparrow, who reviewed the publicized secret British correspondence from this period, behind the death of the Tsar was an English interview with the ambassador in St. Petersburg headed.
Based on her discovery, it can be argued that London could besides have been behind Poniatowski's death. But what interest did the English have in the liquidation of the Tsar and the Polish ex-king? It is very simple: on the 1 hand, they refused to let Poland to be reconstructed over the corpse of Prussia, which were 1 of the pillars of the fight against revolutionary France. On the another hand, they countered Paul I's plans to decision to the French Revolutionary Directorate and attack British allies in Europe.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
