Jan Kilinski had uncovered records in the basement of the Russian Embassy which revealed that the Russians had been paying Bishop Kossakowski for his collaboration. Less than a month after he had urged the Russians to surround Polish churches and arrest the Patriots, the bishop was put on trial and hanged from a gallows set up across the street from a Bernardine church near the royal castle. Three delegates of the Grodno Seym, Peter Ozarowski, Joseph Ankwicz, and Joseph Zabiello, were convicted as traitors for approving the second partition of Poland, which ceded territory to Russia. They,
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