Diplomats, etiquette, ceremonies - the unpublished letters of Łazarz Hordyński from the Ottoman Empire circa 1790

Abstract

Since 1787, Russia had been at war with the Ottoman Empire; Poland during the time of the Great Sejm (the parliament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw between 1788 and 1792) tried to carry out internal reforms before the partition of the state by neighbouring powers and attempted to improve its international situation by diplomatic activity. This was the reason for Piotr Potocki leading a mission to Constantinople between 1789 and 1792.