11 Facts About Tadeusz Rejtan

Tadeusz Rejtan has been the subject of many other art works, and is a symbol of patriotism in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.

Tadeusz Rejtan might have participated in the Bar Confederation, but historians are not certain about the validity of that claim.

Tadeusz Rejtan was one of the deputies that tried to prevent the first partition's legalization, despite threats from the foreign ambassadors.

Tadeusz Rejtan was a deputy to that Sejm, from the constituency of Novogrudok, and the local sejmik gave him very explicit instructions to defend the Commonwealth.

Tadeusz Rejtan's arguments were primarily legal; he argued that Poninski had no right to be the Marshal of the Sejm, and that there are no grounds to form a confederated sejm.

Tadeusz Rejtan was thus able to disrupt the proceedings on that day.

Troops made it difficult for the other deputies to be present in the Sejm chambers, although a dwindling number of deputies, including Tadeusz Rejtan, still were present.

Tadeusz Rejtan would remain in Warsaw during the next few years, but his influence diminished.

Tadeusz Rejtan's action was praised as patriotic and respectable by the Prussian and Russian military commanders in Warsaw, who offered him a military escort to protect him from some confederates.

Tadeusz Rejtan was, and to the present day is, considered a shining example of a patriot.

Tadeusz Rejtan has been the subject of many art works, poems, songs and books.