Preparations
Preparations for the Sejm were not easy. Bishops Krasiński and Kajetan Sołtyk argued vocally against it. At least 32 sejmiks (regional parliaments) that were to elect deputies to it were disrupted and eventually less than half of the regular number of representatives - only about 102-111 (sources vary) deputies, the lowest number in the history of the Commonwealth - arrived in Warsaw, where they were joined by about 36 Senators and Ministers. Most of the deputies from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania did not attend this Sejm.
Russia was represented by Otto von Stackelberg, Prussia by Gedeon Benoit and Austria by Karl Reviczky.
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