Editing Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (section)

== Declining years ==
[[File:Moscow_Gate_Vorontsovo1.jpg|thumb|right|The gates leading to Repnin's country residence near Moscow]]

After the [[Second Partition of Poland]], he was made [[Vilna Governorate-General|governor-general of the newly acquired Lithuanian provinces]], where he also commanded the Russian forces during the [[Kościuszko Uprising]].  Tsar [[Paul I of Russia|Paul I]] raised him to the rank of [[field marshal]] (1796), and in 1798 sent him on a diplomatic mission to [[Berlin]] and [[Vienna]] to detach Prussia from [[France]] and unite the [[Habsburg monarchy]] and Prussia against the [[First French Republic]]. Unsuccessful, upon his return he was dismissed from service and died in [[Riga]].

Repnin had an illegitimate son, [[Ivan Pnin]], and it was widely rumored that [[Adam Jerzy Czartoryski]] was the fruit of a liaison between Repnin and [[Izabela Fleming]].<ref name="LeDonne, p.210"/>  Repnin's legitimate children were three daughters. Upon his death, as the male Repnin line became extinct, [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] permitted Repnin's grandson prince [[Nikolai Repnin-Volkonsky]] to assume the Repnin name and his grandfather's [[coat-of-arms]].