LTStraipsnyje analizuojami valstybinių Lenkijos Karalystės ir Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės santykių reformuojamoje Abiejų Tautų Respublikoje atgarsiai Ketvertų metų seimo laikotarpio masinėje komunikacijoje. Siame tyrime masinė komunikacija suprantama kaip pranešimai, skirti didelei, anoniminei ir įvairiai auditorijai, perduodami per komunikacijos priemones ir kanalus. Tokių priemonių ir kanalų funkcijas XVIII a. pabaigoje atliko periodinė spauda. Tyrimu siekiama nustatyti, kiek ir kaip to meto Abiejų Tautų Respublikos spauda referavo Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės santykius su Lenkijos Karalyste laikotarpiu po Gegužės 3 d. konstitucijos priėmimo ir kiek analizei pasitelktų Vakarų Europos komunikacinių priemonių vartotojams buvo žinoma (jei buvo žinoma) apie 1791 m. spalio 20 d. Abiejų Tautų tarpusavio įžado dokumentų. Tyrimui pasirinkti Abiejų Tautų Respublikoje analizuojamu laikotarpiu didžiausiu tiražu leisti skirtingoms politinėms grupuotėms atstovavę laikraščiai Gazeta Warszawska ir Gazeta Narodowa i Obca bei prancūziškai leistas laikraštis Gazette de Varsovie. Iš Vakarų Europos spaudos tirta informacija, skelbta Prancūzijos, Nyderlandų ir Italijos spaudoje. Analizuoti pranešimai, publikuoti Paryžiuje leistame laikraštyje Gazette de France, Amsterdame spausdintame periodiniame leidinyje Gazette d'Amsterdam bei italų kalba Bolonijoje leistame laikraštyje Gazzetta di Bologna. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Gegužės 3 d. konstitucija, Abiejų Tautų tarpusavio garantijų įstatymas, periodinė spauda, viešoji komunikacija, XVIII amžius. [Iš leidinio]
ENThe article analyses the repercussions of the state relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in reforming the Commonwealth of Both Nations in mass communication in the period following the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791. Mass communication is understood as messages addressed to a large, anonymous, and diverse audience, transmitted through communication media and channels. At the end of the eighteenth century, the periodical press acted as such means and channels. The research aims to determine to what extent and how the press of the Commonwealth of Both Nations at that time covered the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s relations with the Kingdom of Poland and how much, if at all, was known to the users of the Western European means of communication, included in this analysis, about the 20 October 1791 document of the Mutual Assurance of the Two Nations. The newspapers chosen for the study were Gazeta Warszatvska and Gazeta Narodowa i Obca, which were the newspapers with the highest circulation in the Commonwealth of Both Nations during the period under this analysis, and Gazette de Varsovie, a French-language newspaper. The Western European Press was analyzed for information published in the French, Dutch, and Italian Press. The analysis covered reports published in the Paris-based Gazette de France, the Amsterdam-based periodical Gazette d’Amsterdam, and the Italian-language Gazzetta di Bologna, published in Bologna.The research shows that in 1791, the changes in the internal structure of the Commonwealth of Both Nations, the relations between Lithuania and Poland, and the directions of their further development were widely presented in mass communication. The press, both in the Commonwealth of Both Nations and abroad, consistently published information on bills debated in the Sejm, including the bills relating to the centralization of the state and the reorganization of Lithuanian and Polish institutions. All the newspapers that were analyzed published information about the act of Mutual Assurance of the Two Nations, adopted on 20 October 1791. In the press of the Commonwealth of Both Nations, this information was published three to five days after the adoption of the document, while the foreign readers received it a month later, at the end of November of 1791. Newspapers published in Paris, Amsterdam, and Bologna not only informed the readers of the structure of the government of the Commonwealth of Both Nations until the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 but also of the rights of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the confederal state.In this respect, the most comprehensive information was published in the mass media of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands. The Gazette dAmsterdam in 1791 not only informed its readers of the laws being passed but also explained that the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were two confederal states until the adoption of the Constitution of 3 May 1791 and that the adoption ofthe Constitution marked the beginning of the process of centralization of the state into a ‘single and unique state’. The Gazette dAmsterdam expressed its moral support for the unification of the two countries. Keywords: The Constitution of 3 May 1791, the Mutual Assurance of the Two Nations, periodical press, public communication, 18th century. [From the publication]