Foreigners are fiends!
Neal Ascherson: Poland’s Golden Freedom, 12 May 2022
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733-95: Light and Flame
by Richard Butterwick.
Yale, 482 pp., £30, November 2020,978 0 300 25220 0 Show More
by Richard Butterwick.
Yale, 482 pp., £30, November 2020,
“... This astonishing and brilliant revival of independence and creative energy is the subject of Richard Butterwick’s book. For Catherine, though, as for the Habsburg emperor and the Prussian king, this resurrection was insufferable. In 1795 the armies of all three tramped in to carry out the last of the late 18th-century partitions of the ... ”
