A contemporary British satirical drawing titled Picture of Europe in July 1772 shows an allegorical picture of the first partition of Poland, with the three monarchs – Katherine the Great, Joseph II ...

Agreements with Prussia and Austria led to three partitions of Poland, in 1772, 1793, and 1795, extending Russia's borders well into central Europe. Catherine began as a political and social ...

Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a Christmas present for the Poles—partition. To a House of ... her western frontier to the Curzon line. Poland would be compensated by about half of East ...

Some three years earlier, the Danish critic Georg Brandes set out on a journey to the capital of a non-existent country, Warsaw. There, he discovered that despite Poland being torn apart under the ...