PINYL: A) Creating a Commonwealth Part 3
Added 2019-10-14 05:01:00 +0000 UTC[PATRONS]
The road to the Union of Lublin was not paved with romantic ideals of compromise and self sacrifice, but with vested self-interests of the Lithuanian and Polish nobility; with the ambitions of the nobility in the wild eastern lands, and with no small fear of Ivan the Terrible, who by 1569 had given Eastern Europeans much to think about. The creation of a Commonwealth was made possible thanks to this Union of Lublin, but upon the death of the final Jagiellonian King in 1572, there was no guarantee that this Union would be successful. Ill-omens abounded, and it was clear that success would depend upon the good will of others. For this Commonwealth was most vulnerable to corruption and unscrupulous men, just as it relied upon powerful individuals to do the right thing. It was a balancing act, at a time when delicacy was the very last thing Europeans could be said to possess...
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