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Grodno Sejm
Grodno Sejm
(; ; ) was the last
Sejm
(session of parliament) of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
. The Grodno Sejm, held in fall of 1793 in
Grodno
,
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
(now Hrodna, Belarus) is infamous because its deputies,
bribed
or
coerced
by the
Russian Empire
, passed the act of
Second Partition of Poland
. The Sejm started on 17 June and ended on 23 November 1793. It ratified the division of the country in a futile attempt to prevent its subsequent complete annexation two years later in the 1795
Third Partition of Poland
.
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