Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw , ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin , Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767 , named after ambassador Repnin , who de facto dictated the terms of that Sejm ( and who ordered the capture and exile of some vocal opponents of his policies to Kaluga in Russian Empire , including bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski and others ) .
Through the Polish nobles whom Russia controlled and the Russian Minister to Warsaw , ambassador and Prince Nicholas Repnin , Empress Catherine the Great forced a constitution on the Commonwealth at the so-called Repnin Sejm of 1767 , named after ambassador Repnin .