Compensation claims of the Ukrainian exiles, 1686-1690. Origins of the Warsaw commission of 1691

Under the Grzymultowski’s treaty the Commonwealth received from Moscow a sum of 730,000 zlotys. This money has been sought by the Ukrainian nobility who – by the virtue of the treaty – had lost any chance of recovering their Transdnieprian estates. Kyivian, Chernihivian and Bratslavian sejmiki instructed their deputies to obtain a compensation for their citizens for the lost property. These claims were presented at the Grodno diet of 1688, as well as on the successive two diets in Warsaw. The Warsaw Sejm in 1690 approved John III’s patent appointing the Warsaw commission to divide the treaty money among the exiled nobility of the ceded palatinates.