passed the act of Second Partition of Poland. The Sejm started on 17 June and ended on 23 November 1793. It ratified the division of the country in a futile attempt to prevent its subsequent complete annexation two years later in the 1795 Third Partition of Poland.

Background

The Sejm was called to Grodno by the Russian Empire after the Polish-Russian War of 1792 ended with

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