123 years - 1, 2 and 3. Simple and easy to remember for a primary school student. Of course, we can discuss the quantitative and qualitative issue of control. The issue of autonomy of the legislature Kingdom or the Duchy of Warsaw, the Grand Duchy of Poznań, the Free City of Kraków, the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, etc. But that's not what we're going to do today, it's the first phase of the take-off, small known due to the fact that nothing interesting happened at the time. Is that true? Nope. It was then that the partitions truly took shape. He repents of the story that the vast areas of the Republic of Poland were taken distant 1 year, but as Rome was not built immediately, so the Republic of Poland was not dismantled. The dissections required the tremendous enforcement capacity that the possessors had only due to the fact that they operated together and simultaneously.
The dismantling of the Polish state machinery after the cutting was a gradual process and varied depending on the owner. The approximate time needed for the full replacement of the institutions of the Republic by the structures of the possessors was as follows:
Russia
- Dismantling time: approx. 10 to 20 years (weak performance of Russian execution, large areas, dispersal of the population)
- After the First Partition (1772), the first Russian officials were introduced and the Polish institutions were gradually marginalized.
- After the 3rd Partition (1795), the Russian administration began to function fully, although for respective years there were local remains of the Polish system.
- After 1815 (the creation of the Kingdom of Poland) the process of liquidation of the Polish administration was preserved, but after 1830 and especially 1863 Russia accelerated the rusification and complete submission of structures, which it never full achieved due to the enforcement by Polish courts of the Napoleon Code, which was applied until 1947 (sic!).
2. Prussia
- Dismantling time: very fast, ok. 3-5 years (small areas, German-speaking collaborators, efficient authoritative regime)
- The Prussians rapidly replaced Polish offices with their own administration – after the First Partition (1772) Prussian officials and procedures were introduced.
- After the 3rd Partition (1795), the state structures of the Republic were almost immediately liquidated.
- Germanization policy was very consistent and effective from the very beginning. The situation was only affected by the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Poznań.
3. Austria
- Dismantling time: approx. 10 years, but with crucial exceptions (average territory, average productivity, very strong dispersal of the population).
- After I cut (1772) Austria has long maintained part of the Polish structures, especially the judiciary and education.
- Galicia had a degree of autonomy and the Polish language was long official
- It was only after 1848 and the administrative reforms of the empire that full unification was introduced with the Austrian system, although, for example, Galician autonomy has restored local institutions since 1867.
Summary
- Prussia: Fastest – full dismantled in a fewer years.
- Russia: a multi-stage process, completed mostly after the 19th century.
- Austria: the longest and most compromise process – 100% corp only after 1848.
