Siege of Kraków Castle

Siege of the Kraków Castle
	Part of the war of the Bar Confederation
	; The Castle of Kraków (1847); by Jan Nepomucen Głowacki
Date	February 4 – April 26, 1772 Full dates 1 March – Storming of the Kraków Castle;
Location	Kraków Castle (Wawel Castle), Kraków Voivodeship
Result	Russian victory Full results Confederate victory – Storming of the Kraków Castle;
Belligerents
Russian Empire	Bar Confederation France; ;
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Suvorov; Col. Stackelberg	Antoine de Vioménil ; Marquis de Choisy
Strength
About 1,623	Less than 1,000

The siege of (the) Kraków Castle was a siege during the War of the Bar Confederation in which the Russian army, led by Alexander Suvorov, captured the Polish castle of Kraków. It took place in 1772, lasted from 4 February to 26 April^N.S..

During the siege, the Confederates organized several sorties, interfering with siege work, and Suvorov carried out an unsuccessful storming of the Kraków Castle on 1 March^N.S., in which the Russians lost upwards to 150 men.