Poland Table of Contents. During the reign of Empress Catherine the Great (1762-96), Russia intensified its manipulation in Polish affairs. Prussia and Austria, the other powers surrounding the republic, also took advantage of internal religious and political bickering to divide up the country in three partition stages. The third partition in 1795 wiped Poland-Lithuania from the map of Europe.
1 Saturn is 886 million miles, or 1426 million kilometres, from the Sun. 2  Distances from the Sun are measured in Astronomical Units (AU). 3  The Earth is the standard unit, and is one AU from the Sun, so an AU equals 150 million kilometres (93 million miles), the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
* At Aphelion (Farthest) 1,513,325,7 â¦ 83 km (940,337,046 miles) - (10.11 AU) At Perihelion (Closest) 1,353,572,956 km (841,071,241 miles) - (9.04 AU) Light from the Sun takes about 80 minutes to reach Saturn (mean distance is 79.69 light minutes), travelling the nearly 1.5 billion kilometers at 300,000 km/sec.