Geopolitically the Duchy of Warsaw comprised the areas of the 2nd and 3rd Prussian partitions (1795), with the exception of Danzig (Gdańsk), which was made into the Free City of Danzig under joint French and Saxon "protection", and the district around Białystok, which was given to Russia.
Saxony | Lower Saxony | Saxony-Anhalt | Augustus | Frederick the Great | Frederick | Kingdom of Saxony | Frederick II | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick Russell Burnham | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Duchy of Saxony | Frederick Law Olmsted | Electorate of Saxony | Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick Forsyth | Frederick Douglass | Frederick, Maryland | Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany | Nienburg, Lower Saxony | Frederick III | Frederick I | Frederick Delius | Frederick William III of Prussia | Augustus John | John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony | Frederick III, German Emperor | Gleichen, Lower Saxony | Frederick William IV of Prussia | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg |
Born in Dresden to sculptor Franz Pettrich, court sculptor to Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Pettrich studied in Rome under Bertel Thorvaldsen.
He received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit from Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, and was appointed by Duke Augustus of Saxe-Gotha as Privy Counsellor.
King August II of Poland gave up his claim on the Polish crown, although he remained Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony.