Surname (party)

The leader of the group was the great Lithuanian Chancellor Mikhail Friedrich Chartorysky . The influential members of the “Surname” in the early period were: Russian governor Augustus Alexander Chartorysky , Podillian lands general Adam Kazimir Chartorysky , crown feeds Kazimir Ponyatovsky , Austrian general Andrzej Ponyatovsky, Michal Jerzy Ponyatowski , Stanislav Ponyatovsky , Mikhail Kazimir Oginsky Masli , Great Veliky , Bishop of Vilnius Ignatius Jakub Masalsky Governor Pomeranian Pavel Michal Mostovsky, the Great Lithuanian Subcarbon Jerzy Detlof Fleming, Governor of the Wroclaw Andrzej Jerome Zamoyski th , the great crown keeper Stanislav Lubomirsky, bishop of Plotsk Jerome Anthony Sheptytsky and bishop of Kuyavia Anthony Kazimir Ostrovsky.

In 1754, “Surname” passed into opposition to the court of Augustus III “Sachs” . His rival was the old-school (hetman) camp, among which the most important figures in the future were members of the Targovitsa Confederation : Stanislav Schensny Pototsky , Franciszek Xavier Branicki and Severin Rzhevusky , supporting France for the first time and standing for the candidacy of the son of Augustus III as the Polish king, and after his death - for free elections.

Relying in her actions on the assistance of the Russian troops in the coup , the "Family Name" attempted to reform the system of the Commonwealth. Their goal was to correct the central royal power and end the anarchy arising from the abuse of "gentry liberties"; for example, the elimination of Liberum veto in the Sejm . They sought to correct the activities of the Sejm, as well as reforms related to army financing and taxes. At the beginning of 1764, the leaders of the Surname Jerome Anthony Sheptytsky and August Alexander Chartorysky asked Catherine II to introduce Russian troops to the Commonwealth to support them in the fight against the Hetman party. Soon the Russian intervention came (7,000 soldiers entered), and the Czartoryski’s personal troops switched to Russian pay. As a result, from May 7 to June 23, 1764, the Convocational Seimas met to prepare the electoral campaign of Stanislav Augustus Poniatowski, and who simultaneously carried out a number of important reforms about the structure of the Commonwealth. In particular, private duties were eliminated, a single duty on the state treasury was introduced, Liberum veto was abolished when voting on military and financial matters, a ban on the oath of ambassadors on deputy orders was introduced, the system of measures and weights was unified. In 1766, the Seim Chaplits , and in 1768 the Seim Repnin destroyed most of the changes adopted at the provocative Seim in 1764 .

• Czartoryski
• Stanislav August Ponyatovsky
• Ponyatovsky