Editing Royal Castle, Warsaw (section)

=== In partitioned Poland and the Second Polish Republic ===
Between 19 and 20 December 1806 and 1–30 January 1807, [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], the French emperor, spent his time at the castle. Here in 1807 he made the decision to form the [[Duchy of Warsaw]], which was to be ruled by the Saxon king [[Frederick Augustus I of Saxony|Frederick August I]], using the Royal Castle as his residence. Prince [[Józef Poniatowski]], Commander-in-Chief of the [[Army of the Duchy of Warsaw]] and [[Marshal of the Empire|Marshal of France]], resided in the [[Copper-Roof Palace]] joined to the castle. After the creation of the [[Congress Poland|constitutional Kingdom of Poland]] (1815), its [[Sejm of Congress Poland|parliaments]] met here at the castle. As kings of Poland, the Russian Tsars [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] and [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] also resided in the castle when they stayed in Warsaw. During the [[November Uprising]], on 25 January 1831, the Sejm debating in the castle dethroned Tsar Nicholas I as Polish king.<ref name="castles">{{cite web |url = http://www.castles.info/poland/royal-castle-warsaw/ |title = Royal Castle in Warsaw |work = castles.info |access-date = 18 July 2008 |archive-date = 13 January 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100113204859/http://www.castles.info/poland/royal-castle-warsaw/ |url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[File:Conference room without paintings 19th.JPG|thumb|right|Conference Room at the castle without paintings that were stolen by the Tsarist army.]]

In 1836, the voivodeships of Congress Poland were abolished and replaced by [[guberniya]]s. During that time, the Royal Castle became the residence of the Tsar's governor [[Ivan Paskievich]]. Paskievich charged Ludvik Corio – a Russian Colonel and architect – with designing new elevations and façades (the west, south, and east parts). However, the Russian authorities were not satisfied with the new designs, and Corio was told to prepare another design – one that would refer to Kubicki's solutions (and his co-workers Lelewel and Thomas). Finally, Corio rebuilt all the elevations and façades in the [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical style]], but the Saxon Elevation was left the same. After the death of Paskievich in 1856, all the next governors resided in the Royal Castle's Chamberlain's Room. The Russian officials occupied rooms on both floors of the west and north wings of the castle. The governors were heavily guarded by the [[Imperial Russian Army|Russian army]]. Unfortunately, the living space that was assigned to these soldiers was the Parliamentary Hall, Library, and barracks under the castle. As a result, these were left devastated.

After the [[January Uprising]] in 1863, the Russian army totally destroyed the Royal garden on the Vistula side (which was transformed into the [[military parade]] square), building a few barracks made of brick for stables and [[Cossacks]]' barracks. In 1862–1863, some maintenance work was done in the Royal Castle under the supervision of Jerzy Orłowicz, Ludwik Gosławski and Potolov. In 1890, the Saxon Elevation was rebuilt under the supervision of a builder January Kiślański, when the arcades of both viewing galleries, dating back to the Augustus III period, were deformed. The last repair works, which cost 28,000 [[rubles]], during the reign of Russia, were in 1902 in the rooms which had been occupied by the Russian army.

During the [[First World War]], it was the residence of the German military governor. After Poland regained her independence in 1918, the castle became the residence of the [[president of Poland]]. It was restored under the guidance of Kazimierz Skórewicz (1920–1928) and [[Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz]] (until 1939). Under the terms of the peace treaty signed with [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russia]] at [[Peace of Riga|Riga in 1920]], works of art and other precious things, including all the castle furnishings, which had been taken away to Russia, were brought back to Poland. As a result, it was possible to restore the historic rooms to their appearance in the reign of [[Stanisław II Augustus]].