Stanisław August's Visit to Kraków 1787

• In Event: Imperial and Royal Travels in Russia and Eastern Europe: Voyages of Discovery and Political Dominion

Abstract

This paper will address the royal visit of King Stanislaw August to Krakow in 1787 and will discuss, in particular, his visit to the Wawel cathedral with its royal necropolis. The welcoming of the king to Krakow and Wawel will be studied for the ways that Wawel was just beginning to be reconceived as a site of national memory with a more modern national meaning than it held simply as cathedral and necropolis. The paper thus considers the significance of royal travel at a particular turning point in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the age of the partitions.

Author

• Petro Andreas Nungovitch, New York U