Paul I of Russia
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Paul I was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his assassination in 1801.
Tsarevich Paul as a child, by Fyodor Rokotov, 1761
Natalia Alexeievna by Alexander Roslin 1776
Maria Feodorovna, portrait by Alexander Roslin
Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, after Pompeo Batoni, 1782-1787
Peter III of Russia
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Peter III Fyodorovich was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when his wife, Catherine II, overthrew him in a palace coup d'état. He implemented many notable reforms d
Paul I of Russia
…tradition of the Knights Hospitaller from 1799 to 1801 and ordered the construction of a number of priories of the Order of Malta. Paul was son of Emperor Peter III, (nephew and anointed heir of the Empress Elizabeth, the second-eldest daughter of Tsar Peter the Great), and his wife, Empress Catherine II. Catherine…
Portrait by Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt, c. 1761
Engraving of Peter as a child in the 1730s.
Portrait of Grand Duke Pyotr Feodorovich by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1743
Peter's 1746 letter to his wife in French, the language of the Russian aristocracy