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Article: Paul I (Russia) (1754–1801; Ruled 1796–1801)
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PAUL I (RUSSIA) (1754
–
1801; ruled 1796
–
1801)
PAUL I (RUSSIA)
(1754
–
1801; ruled 1796
–
1801), emperor of Russia. Like his father, Peter III (1728
–
1762), Paul I was assassinated by members of elite guards' regiments, on 23 March 1801 (11 March, O.S.). Historians are divided as to what motivated his policies during his brief rule, and equally as to what brought about his demise. The most consistently repeated theme is Paul's abiding
dislike of his mother, Catherine the Great, and a wish to avenge his father, whose remains he had transferred to St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress to lie next to Catherine's. It is true that Paul exiled or dismissed ...