I muri i te Wehewehenga Tuatahi o Polani i te tau 1772, i te ngana ki te whakakaha i te Commonwealth kua ngoikore rawa, ka whakatinana a Kingi Stanisław August Poniatowski i nga whakarereketanga hei whakarei ake i te ope taua o Poland, te punaha torangapu, te ohanga, me te hapori. Ko enei whakahoutanga i eke ki te tihi me te whakatutukitanga o te Ture o Mei i te tau 1791, i whakapumautia ai he rangatiratanga ture me te wehewehe ki nga peka e toru o te kawanatanga, i whakakaha i te bourgeoisie me te whakakore i nga mana rangatira o te rangatira me te maha o nga ture tawhito o te serfdom. Hei taapiri, hei whakapakari i te tuunga o Poland ki te ao, i hainatia e Kingi Stanislaus te Pact Polish-Prussian o te tau 1790, i tuku atu i etahi atu rohe ki Prussia hei utu mo te hononga hoia. I te riri ki nga mea i kitea he whakarerekētanga, he whakarerekētanga Jacobin-style, i whakaekehia e Ruhia a Poland i te tau 1792, i timata ai te Pakanga mo te Tiaki o te Ture
He aha? I whakarerea e ona hoa Prussian, i tinihangatia e nga rangatira Polani e hiahia ana ki te whakahoki mai i nga mana i ngaro i raro i te Ture o Mei, i akina a Poland ki te haina i te Tuarua o Poland i te 1793, i tukuna ai a Dobrzyn, Kujavia, me te waahanga nui o Polani Nui ki a Prussia me nga kawanatanga katoa o te rawhiti o Poland mai i Moldavia ki Livonia ki Russia, te whakaheke i a Poland ki te tuatoru o tona rahi taketake i mua i te Tuatahi Wehewehenga.