God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795

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NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS XXV


  1. and of horses, eg. Czworka (The Foursome, 1881). Pulaski
    pod Czestochowa records one of the actions of the Confederates
    of Bar. In the background, the monastery of Jasna Gora.
    Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).


J. Matejko, Rejtan (1866). Tadeusz Rejtan (1746-80), Envoy of
Nowogrodek, bars the entrance to the Senate in protest against
the confirmation of the First Partition, 1773. Prince Adam
Poninski, Marshal of the Sejm, flanked by Feliks Potocki in white
and Hetman Branicki, orders him to desist. In the balcony, Prince
Repnin; on the wall, a portrait of Catherine II.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).

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