Or M. Bialik on Nostr: If you're looking for an interesting historical setting to #write / do #worldbuilding ...

If you're looking for an interesting historical setting to #write / do #worldbuilding around - read up about late-stage Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It has everything: crumbling politics, foreign intervention, oligarchy, terrible #romance, and eventual demise and partition.
Wiki can be a start point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealtholigarchy