Tadeusz Rejtan
Polish noble
Died when: 37 years 354 days (455 months)Star Sign: Leo
Tadeusz Reytan (surname also alternatively spelled as Rejtan, and rarely Reyten;Belarusian: ??????? ??????;Lithuanian: Tadas Reitanas; 20 August 1742 – 8 August 1780) was a nobleman from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
He was a member of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Nowogródek Voivodeship.Reytan is remembered for a dramatic gesture he made in September 1773, as a deputy of the Partition Sejm.
There, Reytan tried to prevent the legalization of the first partition of Poland, a scene that has been immortalized in the painting Rejtan by Jan Matejko.
He has been the subject of many other art works, and is a symbol of patriotism in Lithuania, Belarus and Poland.
Despite his efforts, the partition of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was legalized soon afterwards.
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