The First Partition of Europe

In seven 95, basically the three neighbouring powers sit round the table and carve it up. They 're just staggeringly ruthless, with a sort of ridiculous veneer of political reasonableness to disguise the fact of o major european states being destroyed. The last king of poland was arrested by the equivalent of the k g b, put in chains and an marched off to russia and never returned. And so it proves, the first partition really comes about through russia's success fighting he ottomans. In many ways, the best bit the final dismemberment of the most serene commonwealth of poland and lithuania.