Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk
Deceased Person
1748 – 1794
Who was Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk?
Prince Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk was a noble and politician in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
He was one of the Polish magnates who took the side of the Russian Empire. Member of many Sejms, including the 1772 and 1775, and the partition Sejm. He was a member of the commission negotiation the First Partition of Poland, an opponent of the Constitution of May 3 and participant of the Confederation of Targowica. Awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaw in 1785. Castellan of Przemyśl since 1790
In the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising during the Kościuszko Uprising, he was imprisoned by the Polish revolutionaries. On 28 June 1794 an angry mob stormed the prison, and he was hanged together with other people declared traitors, like bishop Ignacy Jakub Massalski. His family was smuggled to St. Petersburg, where his daughter Marie became a mistress to Alexander I of Russia.
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- Born
- 1748
- Also known as
- Святополк-Четвертинский, Антоний Станислав
- Children
- Died
- 1794
Warsaw
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on July 23, 2013
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