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- Although the members of the Czartoryski family trace their lineage back to the 14th-century noble Gedymin (Gediminas) of Lithuania, they first achieved widespread power through the efforts of Michał Fryderyk Czartoryski and his brother August Aleksander during the reigns of Kings Augustus II and Stanisław I in the early 18th century.
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Although the Czartoryski family estate at Puławy was confiscated in 1794, during the Third Partition of Poland, the family continued to wield significant cultural power, notably through the princes Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
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The Czartoryski had risen to power under August Aleksander Czartoryski (1697–1782) of the Klewa line, who married Zofia Denhoffowa, the only heir to the Sieniawski family. The family attained the height of its influence from the mid-18th century in the court of King Augustus III (r. 1734–1763).
The power of the Czartoryskis was noticed in Vienna, Berlin and Saint Petersburg. This contrasted with the weakness of the Wettins, whose prestige had suffered considerably after the beating they received from the Prussians during the Seven Years’ War.
May 2, 2021 · The most accepted position is taken by Marian Kukiel, Czartoryski and European Unity 1770–1861 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955), 220, who writes that Czartoryski refused to proclaim himself king and reacted with anger to the proposal but never publicly disavowed it.
- André Liebich
- 2021
In the early 1760s, the Czartoryski family saw the actions of Tsarina Catherine II (1762-1796) as a chance to overcome the crisis the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had succumbed to, hoping limited political reforms would save the situation.
He is the head of the Polish House of Czartoryski, descendants of Gediminas (died 1341), ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Czartoryski rose to power under August Aleksander Czartoryski (1697–1782) of the Klewa line, who married Countess Zofia von Dönhoff, the only heir to the Sieniawski family.
Czartoryski was already connected with the imperial family. His elder sister Maria was married to the then-Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna's brother, Duke Louis of Württemberg. On the accession of Tsar Paul I, Czartoryski was appointed adjutant to Alexander, who was now Tsarevich, and was permitted to revisit his Polish estates for three months.
