Fryderyk Józef Jan Kanty Moszyński (1738, Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 - 21 January 1817, Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

) of Nałęcz Coat of Arms was a noble (szlachcic) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

. He held the offices of Referendary of Lithuania, Great Secretary of Lithuania and Great Marshal of the Crown.

A grandson of former king of Poland, August II the Strong, he was educated in Saxony

Saxony

The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

. From 1766-1768 he was the member of Crown Treasury Commission, and from 1768 a vice-commander of the Cadet Corps

Cadet Corps

Cadet Corps is a type of a military school for young boys. Although initially such military schools admitted only children of the nobles or gentry, with time many of them were also opened to other classes....

, a function he performed well, even donating some of his funds to the Szkoła Rycerska. However in 1792 he joined the Targowica Confederation

Targowica Confederation

The Targowica Confederation was a confederation established by Polish and Lithuanian magnates on 27 April 1792, in Saint Petersburg, with the backing of the Russian Empress Catherine II. The confederation opposed the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, which had been adopted by the Great Sejm,...

, whose actions resulted in the fall of the Constitution of May 3 and the Second Partition of Poland

Second Partition of Poland

The 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the second of three partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition occurred in the aftermath of the War in Defense of the Constitution and the Targowica Confederation of 1792...

. In 1793 he was a member of commission investigating a banking crisis in the Commonwealth, and the member of the Permanent Council

Permanent Council

The Permanent Council was the highest administrative authority in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between 1775 and 1789 and the first modern government in Europe...

 in charge of police

Police

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. In the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising

Warsaw Uprising (1794)

The Warsaw Uprising of 1794 was an armed Polish insurrection by the city's populace early in the Kościuszko Uprising. Supported by the Polish Army, it aimed to throw off Russian control of the Polish capital city...

 during the Kościuszko Uprising

Kosciuszko Uprising

The Kościuszko Uprising was an uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland, Belarus and Lithuania in 1794...

, he was imprisoned by the Polish revolutionaries. On 28 June 1794 angry mob stormed the prison with the intention of hanging

Hanging

Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

 many of the people considered traitors, Moszyński was saved by the intervention of Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski

Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski

Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski was a notable Polish nobleman and politician during the last years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, shortly before the Partitions of Poland....

, although many others - like bishop

Bishop

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 Ignacy Jakub Massalski

Ignacy Jakub Massalski

Prince Ignacy Massalski was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman.Ignacy was Bishop of Vilnius and one of the initiators of the Commission for National Education. After few years he was removed from the Commission for embezzlement of public funds...

 or prince Antoni Stanisław Czetwertyński-Światopełk - were hanged that day.