This collection for the first time introduces the general public to the office work of the elite of the Russian Empire about the origin of the 1794 uprising in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, its initiators and their ideological ideas, the participation of the population in propaganda and mobilization actions of the leaders of the movement. The overwhelming part of the documents also for the first time reveals the military-operational situation on the battlefield, the details of the combat operations themselves. With rare exceptions, texts are reproduced in full. The collection is addressed to historians, teachers, teachers and students. Literary editor - leading scientific editor of the publishing house "Belaruskaya Entsyklapedyya" Efrosinya Pavlovna Feshchenko.