Stanisław Florian Potocki alias Staś (6 May 1776 – 30 November 1830) – general of infantry of the Polish Army, senator-voivode of the Congress Poland.

He was a staunch opponent of the growing anti-Russian conspiracy in Warsaw, which saw him or General Józef Chłopicki as a potential leader of a future uprising.

He regained his freedom on April 18, 1794, at the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, in which he immediately took part as an aide-de-camp to General Stanisław Mokronowski.

[2] He followed the campaign all the way to the Battle of Berezina,[2] and during the retreat, he assumed the duties of chief of staff of the V Corps after General Stanisław Fiszer.

[2] Stanisław Potocki was aware of the emerging anti-Russian conspiracy in the Polish capital, being close to Grand Duke Konstantin, but also having his own agents.

The general, on his way to the Belweder, where the Grand Duke was staying, met the rebellious cadets at Three Crosses Square, next to St. Alexander's Church.

Piotr Wysocki addressed Potocki with the words: “I beseech you for the love of the fatherland, for the bonds of Igelström, in which you moaned for so long, to stand at our helm.

There, after talking with the Grand Duke, he went to Królewska and Chmielna Streets, where he took a grenadier company of the 6th Regiment of the Line and brought it to Konstantin.

[7] Soldiers with difficulty rescued Potocki, who then, stripped and bruised, without his sword and on foot, took refuge in Count Lubecki's apartment in the Bank Polski building.

[8] Despite this, the rebels of the Officer Candidate School made one more attempt to offer Potocki's leadership, between 10 and 11 p.m., they arrived at the Bank Polski building.

[9] Against the persuasions of those around him to remain neutral or depart from Bank Square, at around 1 a.m., Potocki went alone in the direction of Bielańska Street, where he encountered privates of the 3rd Regiment.

The body was moved to the loco's room and then to Jan Łubieński's apartment on Sentaroska Street, where the general died in severe agony on the evening of November 30, 1830.

His death was a reflection of his life, for he died as peacefully as one whose conscience bore no torment, and moments before passing, he uttered these final words: 'I have always been a virtuous man and a good Pole.

'"[12] The name of Potocki was also inscribed on the monument erected by the Russian authorities in Warsaw in 1841, honoring the loyalist officers who fell during the November Uprising.

After the death of his first wife, he married Marianna Górska on February 22, 1815, the daughter of Kazimierz Górski and Barbara née Kamińska.