Paul I
1754 CE–1801 CE · St. Petersburg
Paul I (1754–1801) was Emperor of Russia from 1796, the son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, from whom he had long been estranged. In 1797 he established a fixed law of succession based on male primogeniture, which remained in force until the end of the monarchy and reversed the earlier practice of rulers naming their own heirs. His unpredictable domestic policies and his shifting foreign alignments, including a reversal toward Napoleonic France, alienated much of the nobility and military. He was assassinated in a palace conspiracy in 1801 and succeeded by his son Alexander I.
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Elizabeth (Elizabeth Petrovna), Peter III, Ivan VI, Alexander I, Nicholas I
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