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===Second Partition (1793)===

===Second Partition (1793)===

After the 1772 partition, Poland-Lithuania adopted a [[constitution]] on May 3rd, 1791 (the first constitution in [[Europe]] and the second in the world after the [[U.S. Constitution]] of 1787) which gave more political power to a hereditary [[monarchy]] in order to make the inner structure of the country stronger and viable to resist further partitions of the Republic. However, Polish opponents to such a design formed another military confederation drawn up in Russia – the Confederation of Targowica. This confederation meant cooperating with the Russian [[tsar]]ist authorities to restore pre-1791 constitutional [[democracy|democratic]] liberties of the [[feudal]] [[aristocracy]] against the potential absolute power of the ruler (king/grand duke). The result of such a situation was the military invasion by Russia in 1792 (supporting the legitimate claims by the confederation based on its formal invitation to intervene) and which was followed by a Prussian military intervention which both of them ended with the Second Partition of the Republic in 1793. The Habsburg Monarchy did not participate in the second partition. On this occasion, the Russian Empire re-annexed parts of the territories of old [[Kieven Rus']] from the left bank of Western Dvina including [[Minsk]], Pinsk, and Zelentsi to the mid-Southern Bug with Podolia up to the mid-Dnieper (the right bank). In fact, Russia included some 250,200 sq. kilometers populated by 3,000,000 people. Those lands belonged in the 15th century to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania occupied since the second half of the 13th century onward. Prussia from its side included in 1793 around 57,100 sq. kilometers of territory from Poland-Lithuania populated by around one million people of South Prussia (Great Poland) and territory around Danzig. However, in addition, Russia was given the right to station its military troops in what was left at that time from Poland-Lithuania and to control its [[foreign policy|foreign relations]]. Actually, the remains of the Republic of Two Nations were supervised by St. Petersburg since 1793.

After the 1772 partition, Poland-Lithuania adopted a [[constitution]] on May 3rd, 1791 (the first constitution in [[Europe]] and the second in the world after the [[U.S. Constitution]] of 1787) which gave more political power to a hereditary [[monarchy]] in order to make the inner structure of the country stronger and viable to resist further partitions of the Republic. However, Polish opponents to such a design formed another military confederation drawn up in Russia – the Confederation of Targowica. This confederation meant cooperating with the Russian [[tsar]]ist authorities to restore pre-1791 constitutional [[democracy|democratic]] liberties of the [[feudal]] [[aristocracy]] against the potential absolute power of the ruler (king/grand duke). The result of such a situation was the military invasion by Russia in 1792 (supporting the legitimate claims by the confederation based on its formal invitation to intervene) and which was followed by a Prussian military intervention which both of them ended with the Second Partition of the Republic in 1793. The Habsburg Monarchy did not participate in the second partition. On this occasion, the Russian Empire re-annexed parts of the territories of old [[Kievan Rus']] from the left bank of Western Dvina including [[Minsk]], Pinsk, and Zelentsi to the mid-Southern Bug with Podolia up to the mid-Dnieper (the right bank). In fact, Russia included some 250,200 sq. kilometers populated by 3,000,000 people. Those lands belonged in the 15th century to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania occupied since the second half of the 13th century onward. Prussia from its side included in 1793 around 57,100 sq. kilometers of territory from Poland-Lithuania populated by around one million people of South Prussia (Great Poland) and territory around Danzig. However, in addition, Russia was given the right to station its military troops in what was left at that time from Poland-Lithuania and to control its [[foreign policy|foreign relations]]. Actually, the remains of the Republic of Two Nations were supervised by St. Petersburg since 1793.

===Third Partition (1795)===

===Third Partition (1795)===