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... tre of clandestine activity aimed at overthrowing the foreign rule by force and restoring independence. The Kościuszko uprising and the victory at Racławice spurred the people of Warsaw to action. On 17 April 1794, led by Jan Kiliński, a local shoemaker and Józef Sierakowski, a butcher, they attacked and defeated the Russian troops stationed in the city. In May at the gallows erected in the Old Market Square the traitorous aristocratic members of the Targowica government were hanged. However, the final defeat of the uprising also meant the end of the Republic. Following the third partition in 1795 Poland disappeared from the maps of Europe for 123 years and its territory was divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria. The part of Mazovia containing Warsaw fell to the Prussians and the town was relegated to the status of... Read all>>
