after the death of augustus ii, catherine ii sent troops to warsaw, after which her lover was electedatherine’s attitude towards the poles is reflected in rescript to ambassador yakov sivers, due to the fickleness and flightiness of the entire people, due to their proven malice and hatred towards ours, and especially due to the inclination expressed in them towards french debauchery and frenzy, we will never have a calm or safe neighbor in them, otherwise, as having brought him into utter powerlessness and infirmity. turned the polish-lithuanian commonwealth, de facto, into a protectorate of russia. dissatisfied with these innovations, the gentry united in 1768 into the so-called lordly confederation, and openly opposed russia. the confederates gathered 500 people and occupied the zamosc fortress, which was defeated by alexander vasilyevich. lithuanian crown hetman aginsky gathered. "austria and prussia, with cries of anam , force russia to divide poland between them. in 1795, after the third partition , poland loses its independence." brutal soldiers of napoleon. after the defeat of