Second Partition of Poland

Second Partition of Poland
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Second Partition (1793)
Cumulative losses
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after the first two partitions
Territorial losses
Total	307,000 km2[1]
To Prussia	58,000 km2[2]
To Russia	250,000 km2

The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition occurred in the aftermath of the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and the Targowica Confederation of 1792, and was approved by its territorial beneficiaries, the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. The division was ratified by the coerced Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1793 (see the Grodno Sejm) in a short-lived attempt to prevent the inevitable complete annexation of Poland, the Third Partition.