Stronnictwo regalistyczne w województwie kijowskim 1780-1782
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The article discusses the course of sejmik campaigns in the Kievvoivodeship
from 1780 to 1782. It shows the activities of the royalist party led by Castellan
of Kiev, Józef Stempkowski, who completely controlled the progress of deputational
and pre-sejm sejmiks in Zhytomyr (Żytomierzwas the city where sejmiks
assembled in the Kiev voivodeship) in 1780. The journey to Ukraine made by
King Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1781 was supposed to strengthen the
position of local royalists. Yet the influence of the opposition became noticeable
in 1782. Its leader Great Crown Hetman Franciszek Ksawery Branicki may have
capitalized on his marriage (in 1781) to Aleksandra Engelhardt, a natural
daughter of Empress Catherine II. The results of voting on particular issues
during the Sejm of 1782 make it possible to discuss the political views of the
Kiev envoys. Analyzing the course of the sejmiks from 1780 to 1782 and of the
electoral sejmik in 1783, the author depicts the leading members of the royalist
party in the Kievvoivodeship.
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