Russian Partition

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Russian partition was the former territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that were acquired by the Russian Empire in the late-18th-century Partitions of Poland. To both Russians and Poles, the term Russian Poland was unacceptable. To Russians, Poland ceased to exist, and their newly acquired territories were long lost parts of Russia. To Poles, Poland was simply Polish, never Russian. While Russians used varying administrative names for their new territories (see below), another popular term, used in Poland and adopted by most other historiographies, was the Russian partition. The Russian Empire acquired the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (a real union of Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) even before the period of the three partitions (in late 18th century). The Russian partition came into existence (albeit not under such name until the official partitions) in the late 17th century, after the Treaty of Andrusovo granted Russia the "Polish" or Western Ukraine.

Pagina's: 68, Paperback, VDM Verlag