Stanisław August Poniatowski

Stanisław August Poniatowski was elected king of Poland and grand duke of Lithuania in 1764. His reign combined cultural patronage and reform with mounting pressure from Russia, Prussia and Austria. He supported educational and constitutional change and was closely associated with the Constitution of 3 May 1791, but the Commonwealth’s neighbours intervened repeatedly in its politics.

Stanisław August Poniatowski was the last king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, reigning from 1764 until his abdication in 1795. Stanisław August Poniatowski was born in Wołczyn, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and died in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.

Adam Zamoyski’s Izabela the Valiant also traces Izabela’s development as an educational patron and collector who sought to preserve Polish historical memory after the state itself disappeared. Figures including Stanisław August Poniatowski and Alexander I appear within her documented political world. In Adam Zamoyski’s Poland, the 2009 book is a substantially revised and updated successor to Zamoyski’s earlier The Polish Way rather than a simple reprint. Figures such as Stanisław August Poniatowski, Józef Piłsudski and Joseph Stalin appear within the long political narrative. Adam Zamoyski’s The Last King of Poland is Adam Zamoyski’s biography of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the final monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.