Radom Confederation

The Confederacy of Radom ( Polish: Konfederacja Radomska ) was to prevent a confederation of nobles of Poland-Lithuania was launched on June 23, 1767 to life for reforms and to defend the Golden freedom. It was also formed as a Catholic response to the earlier Protestant Confederations of Sluzk and Toruń and had a retention of about 74,000 nobles who declared their support for the Confederacy of Radom.

Marshal of the Confederacy was Karol Stanislaw Radziwill, another leader was the Primate of Poland, Gabriel Podoski. In fact, however, was the Russian ambassador to Poland, Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnine, who was responsible for the formation of the Protestant and Orthodox confederations, the driving force behind the federal government. At his urging, joined the Confederate peace with the Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski, and sent an envoy to the Russian Empress Catherine II in order to ask them for the preservation and protection of the liberties of Poland-Lithuania. He encouraged the unrest in Poland by the Russian control of the state strengthened. After Repnine Sejm, in the Repnim de facto dictated the legislation of the Sejm, the influence of Russia grew to Poland - Lithuania even more significantly.