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- As a result of his inconsistent policies, as well as his tyrannical and capricious manner of implementing them, a group of highly placed civil and military officials, led by Count Peter von Pahlen, governor-general of St. Petersburg, and General Leonty Leontyevich, Count von Bennigsen, gained the approval of Alexander, the heir to the throne, to depose his father.
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In May 1801, after Paul's death, Russian General Carl Heinrich von Knorring removed the Georgian heir to the throne, David Batonishvili, from power and deployed a provisional government headed by General Ivan Petrovich Lazarev.
Mar 3, 2001 · Paul I of Russia was the son and successor of Catherine the Great, who took the Romanov throne away from her feeble-minded husband, Tsar Peter III, and had him killed in 1762, an event which ever afterwards preyed on the mind of their son, then a boy of eight.
Between Peter I's decree on the succession to the throne of 16 February 1722 and Paul I's decree of 15 May 1797, the Emperor had the right to name his or her own successor. All heirs in this period were nominated by the reigning monarch, rather than holding the position by right of inheritance.
HeirStatusRelationship To MonarchBecame HeirHeir apparenteldest son1281Heir presumptivebrother4 March 1303Heir apparenteldest son21 November 1325Heir presumptivebrother31 March 1340Paul I of Russia, also known as Tsar Paul, reigned as Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801. He succeeded his mother, Catherine the Great, and immediately began a mission to undo her legacy. Paul had deep animosity towards his mother and her actions as empress.
- His chaotic demeanor made the whole Imperial Court insecure. Immediately after ascending the throne, Paul I started issuing new laws and regulations, implementing the plan he was carefully hatching during his years as a Grand Duke.
- He lost the trust of the Imperial Guard. The Imperial Guard, consisting of several regiments (Preobrazhensky, Semenovsky, Izmailovsky etc.) was at the same time the elite of the Russian Imperial army and the Emperor’s personal guard, which ensured his security in his residences.
- He got into conflict with the Russian nobility. During the latter years of Catherine’s reign, high-ranking statesmen showed up at their workplaces in the afternoon, military officers stationed in St. Petersburg rarely showed up for musters, preferring to spend nights and days in aristocratic salons.
- He teamed up with Napoleon against the Great Britain. From the start of his reign, Paul saw the main direction of his foreign policy in the struggle against revolutionary France.
After Elizabeth died, Peter III ruled for a short while and was succeeded by Catherine II the Great as Empress of Russia. Ironically, she too ignored her son, Paul, when it came to identifying an heir to the throne and preferred her grandson Alexander.
May 29, 2018 · The Russian czar Paul I (1754-1801), the son and successor of Catherine the Great, reigned from 1796 until his assassination in 1801. Noted for his tyranny, he reversed many of his mother's policies. Born on Sept. 20, 1754, Paul I was the son of Emperor Peter III and Catherine the Great.
