The basis of this monografіi was the rich sobranіe of diplomatic korrespondentsіi, which is stored in the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, precisely polskіya 1792 and 1793, zaklyuchayushchіyasya in bundles 70, 71,, 72 and 73. Tutu are the dispatches of the Russian embassy in Poland, as well as rescripts and instruktsіi preprovozhdavshіesya to him from St. Petersburg (with a few isklyuchenіyami, all this korrespondentsіya is in French).