Where did the sessions of the Vilnius sejmik take place in 1717–1795?

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Gdzie odbywały się obrady sejmiku wileńskiego w latach 1717–1795?

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Parliamentary activities of the Vilnius dietine envoys at the diet of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1717-1793

In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the diet was the most important state institution and an integral part of the democracy of the nobility. An analysis of the parliamentary activities of the Vilnius dietine envoys at the diet of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth showed that in the 1717–1793 period, their becoming permanent (in 1778) diet marshals did not indicate an especially big difference among the other envoys of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (hereinafter the GDL). This was probably determined by the circumstance that whether the exceptionally important position of the diet marshal fell to one person or another depended not on the rank of the dietine but on the suitability and personal traits of a specific individual and on the political situation. That the pro tem marshal positions (in 1722, 1746, 1786, and 1780) fell to the Vilnius dietine envoys was directly connected with their prestigious status and the right possessed by the GDL to chair the diet on a rotating basis. The Vilnius dietine envoys actively participated in the activities of both temporary and permanent deputations (commissions) of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth diet. Specialised deputations were fairly frequently elected and sent to the ruler or senate, usually in the initial phase of the diet’s activities after a diet marshal had been successfully elected (in 1744, 1748, 1752, and 1764). The Vilnius dietine envoys were also not uncommonly elected to delegations which performed mediation functions (in 1733, 1750, and 1766). On 11 occasions, the Vilnius dietine envoys actually became members of the deputation for the preparation of the principal constitutions, which was one of the primarily deputations (in 1717, 1718, 1719–1720, 1722, 1726, 1740, 1767–1768, 1778, 1780, 1782, and 1784).In the sessions of the province of the GDL, eight Vilnius dietine envoys were elected diet court judges (in 1744, 1775 (2 envoys), 1780, 1782, 1784, and 1791 (2 envoys))

Vilnius dietine envoys at the diet of the Republic of the Two Nations during 1717-1793 : status and parliamentary activities forms

Straipsnyje analizuojama Vilniaus seimelio pasiuntinių parlamentinė veikla Abiejų Tautų Respublikos (toliau – Respublikos) Seime 1717–1793 metais. Remiantis Respublikos Seimo dienoraščiais, oficialia dokumentacija, didžiausias dėmesys tyrime skiriamas Vilniaus seimelio pasiuntinių ordinarinėms (pasisakymams, konstitucijų projektų inicijavimui) ir ekstraordinarinėms (liberum veto teisės panaudojimui ir Seimo sesijų išardymo iniciatyvoms) parlamentinio aktyvumo formoms. Parlamentinei veiklai nemažai įtakos turėjo Vilniaus seimelio pasiuntinių statusas ir įtakingiausios pozicijos tarp LDK pasiuntinių. Straipsnyje siekiama atskleisti istoriografijoje iki šiol mažai tirtų Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės (toliau – LDK) seimelių pasiuntinių parlamentinės veiklos efektyvumo problemąThe Vilnius dietine envoys, based on their palatinate rank, were third in the context of the entire Republic of the Two Nations and first on a Grand Duchy of Lithuania (hereinafter the GDL)-wide scale. This priority was valid in many areas of parliamentary practice with the seating place for envoys being ultimately connected with rank. But this priority could have varied and the significance of the Vilnius dietine envoys grown especially in those instances where the envoys from the palatinates of Krakow and Poznan, who were first in rank, failed to attend the diet (which occurred in 1722 and 1761). It is necessary to note that the envoys frequently used to stress the uniqueness of their palatinates and at the same time their dietines in speeches given in the diet. In addition, the Vilnius dietine envoys were usually treated as the foremost GDL envoys and they frequently spoke even in the name of the entire GDL. This reveals the exceptional status of the Vilnius dietine envoys, which we could describe as being the most prestigious in respect to all the envoys from the GDL. An internal hierarchy also existed among the Vilnius dietine envoys. Although this distinction were not discernable in the instructions from the dietines, the diet diaries frequently indicate who was the first envoy and who the second. The first envoy was sometimes still called the senior envoy in diet diaries and the second envoy was sometimes called the junior envoy. It is necessary to distinguish the most active Vilnius dietine envoys who spoke fairly frequently, namely Jonas Antanas Horainas (Jan Antoni Horain) (who spoke 14 times at the 1746 diet, 10 at 1754 diet, and 13 at the 1764 diet), Jonas Benediktas Volskis (Jan Benedykt Wolski) (9 times at the 1735 diet), Liudvikas Tiškevičius (Liudwik Tyszkiewicz) (10 times at the 1780 diet), Adomas Čartoriskis (Adam Czartoryski) (16 times at the 1782 diet), and Tadas Korsakas (Tadeusz Korsak) (23 times at the 1790-1792 diet). One must remember that these forms of activity also affected the diet's duration. Until the late 18th century, the Vilnius dietine envoys gave speeches in the diets often on the basis of dietine instructions and if the occasion afforded raised the demands fixed in these documents. In fact, the relatively small number of speeches shows that the dietine envoys did not have any opportunity to present the entire content of the dietine instructions. One more form of the radical envoy activity was to break up the diet by using the right of veto, which was especially rarely used by the Vilnius dietine envoys. On only one occasion did the Vilnius dietine envoys contribute to and become one of the most active initiators in breaking up a diet, i.e. the 1729 extraordinary Hrodna die

[Warfare, loyalty, and rebellion: the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Great Northern War, 1709-1717. Mindaugas Šapoka] : recenzija

The monograph by Mindaugas Šapoka about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) during the years of the Great Northern War, published in 2018 by Routledge, is an excellent addition to research on this topic. Even though the monograph echoes the author’s doctoral thesis defended at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2014, in this case, his research is somewhat different in nature, and the monograph is a more conceptual work. Until now, the socio-political and socio-economic contexts of the Great Northern War were generally given less attention in studies of the internal and foreign policies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in this period, and in research on warfare. In the historiographical contexts of grand policy and distinctive war campaigns, the accentuation of the specific situation the GDL found itself in has often ‘fallen by the wayside’. A certain exception, in a good sense, would be the research conducted by Robert Frost, which the author of the monograph under review appears to extend, by focusing his research exclusively on the GDL. This is an important point, because not so long ago in Lithuania, when presenting historiography on the Great Northern War, specialists in the history of warfare described this period in the 18th-century context as one of the least studied. [...

Ar XVIII a. pabaigoje buvo pastatyti Lietuvos Metrikos rūmai Vilniuje?

The paper seeks to give a preliminary clarification whether the late 18th c. saw construction of an individual building in Vilnius designed for storing the Lithuanian Metrica, as it is sometimes maintained in historiography, and to trace back the validity of such statements. By publishing in 1964 the report of Marcin Knackfuss on construction of the building of the archive of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (the GDL), art historian Vladas Drėma introduced a statement into historiography that in the late 18th c. the territory of Vilnius Lower Castle saw construction of a house for the special purpose of storing the Lithuanian Metrica archive. Based on the material presented, the paper concludes that an individual building for housing the Lithuanian Metrica archive was never erected in the territory of Vilnius Lower Castle. The so-called “GDL Archive” or “The New Office” constructed to the design of M. Knackfuss on the eve of the collapse of the Commonwealth of Both Nations did not have the purpose of storing the Lithuanian Metrica. As neither the Vilnius Castle nor land court records, nor the records of the GDL Supreme Tribunal, for whose storage the building was designed, are part of the Lithuanian Metrica as independent complexes of sources in accordance with the present-day concept, it is evident that the statement about construction of a building designed for the Lithuanian Metrica archive appeared in historiography as a result of the significant expansion of the concept of the Lithuanian Metrica through the unjustified inclusion into this concept of independent archival complexes of the judiciary

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Pašvitinio parapijos archyvo susiformavimas ir struktūra

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Bajoriškas seimelis mieste: kur vykdavo Vilniaus seimelio posėdžiai 1717-1795 m.?

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