Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: Have the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive until the 1900s.
Challenge: Have the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive until the 1900s.
Dont be taken over by the Russians.
How about getting rid of that damn "golden rule". It pretty much permanently crippled the King and any centralized policies. I mean hell the nobles had the right to revolt! It was ridiculous! The only surprising thing about the Commonwealth's fall is that it lasted for as long as it did.
Dont be taken over by the Russians.
A way might be to belate the Constitution of 1791 by a few years,* maybe the optimum time would be during or after the War of the Third or Fourth Coalition, since Prussia, Russia and Austria would be too busy with Napoleon or already defeated by him to go ahead with the last partition. If PLC doesn't side with Napoleon with its own will, the Congress of Vienna will preserve it but they may demand the backtracking of the constitutional reforms but a strong King can sit on his ass despite oral concessions.
Another way can be to have Augustus III be a not complete failure and do something useful for his country. This, added with a PLC participation in the Seven Years War in the winning side (if the Miracle of the House of Brandemburg happens again, with Prussia, if not, with Russia) can give the Commenwealth some years/decades more to implement the constitutional reforms (such as the abolishment of the liberum veto).
*assuming there are no significant changes to the Napoleonic Wars to OTL.
maybe it could additionally be allowed to persist as a neutral buffer state between the western European states and Russia?