By the mid-18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had finally lost its power in Eastern Europe and no longer played the same role in the region's international affairs as in the 17th century. Her neighbors, on the contrary, intensified and began to interfere in the internal affairs of Poland, participating in the nomination of kings. The king's power in the country was weak and he had to take into account the opinion of influential aristocrats from the regions. As a result, Prussia, Austria and Russia partition the Commonwealth in 1772, 1793 and 1795. Russian historian Sergei Soloviev describes in detail the reasons and course of these sections.