AHC: Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Napoleonic Wars

Make the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive until the Napoleonic Era. What would happen to the nation? Would Napoleon carve his own partition of it or use it as an ally?
 
Make the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive until the Napoleonic Era. What would happen to the nation? Would Napoleon carve his own partition of it or use it as an ally?

Making it survive you would ave to stop that partitions. You could go all the way back to the Great Northern War and making Poland-Lithuania more of a winner.
 
Making it survive you would ave to stop that partitions. You could go all the way back to the Great Northern War and making Poland-Lithuania more of a winner.

Nope. Russia never planned to partition Poland- Tsaritsa planned to reform it (a bit- to remove anarchy at least). Long term plan was to annex PLC as a whole, but due to extreme unwillingness of polish government to cooperate, she decided to take at least part of PLC- sharing with neighbors.

Of course she couldn't knew, that in 10 years from her death (surely PLC wouldn't get annexed in this time- not with Prussia having mediocre ruler and Austria being occupied in the mean time), some crazy French guy will conquer most of Europe.
 
Well, if Catherine II chockes on a sausage (of one kind... or another) before 1792, you'll get a PLC with 3 May Constitution still going on, while Napoleon is gathering steam. Existing PLC also makes possible that Russia under Paul doesn't join any coalition, so there won't be an Italian campaign 1798-1800. Or PLC is forced to take part anyway. Nonetheless it may end with French-aligned Poland up until the Continental Blockade. I don't see PLC being any happier about it than Russia OTL. So instead of 1812 Russian campaign, we get 1812 Polish campaign, ending with sth like mix of OTL Spain and Russian campaign, with Russians playing the role of the British in this scenario. Then sooner or later we have Prussian side-switching, German and Austrian side-switching with end result similiar to OTL, but with PLC on winning side and back (mostly) to pre-Partition borders.
 
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