Tumult wileński 1755 roku i jego reperkusje

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ENAt the end of August 1755 at the tribunal in Wilno (Vilna, Vilnius) there was a bloody incident. The victim was Józef Wołodkowicz, a judge from Minsk. Th e main accused was to become Michał Czartoryski’s agent, Piotr Frąckiewicz. It was a symptom of intensifying rivalry between the factions in Lithuania. Frąckiewicz sought Russian protection aft er he had fl ed to Riga. Both sides accused each other of lawlessness and sent the relevant ‘diaries’ to the royal court in Dresden. In the camp of Michał Kazimierz Radziwiłł there appeared a project of a scheme to adjudge and to burn publicly the ‘diary’ of the opponents. Th e hetman, however, rejected this project. On the other hand, Michał Czartoryski called upon Frąckiewicz’s case, asking Russia for help before the resumption of the Lithuanian tribunal in 1756. [From the publication]