Paul I Petrovich Romanov 
Paul I Petrovich was born in 1754 in , , RUS. He died at the age of 47 in 1801 in , , RUS.General Notes
The second son of Tsar Peter III and Catherine II, he suceeded his Mother in 1796. He led Russia into alternative alliance during the Napoleonic Wars; in 1801 his convention with Sweden and Denmark in alliance with France was broken by the British fleet under Admiral Nelson. His own officers conspired against him to compel Paul to abdicate. In a scuffle he was strangled.
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