Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  Paul was born in the Palace of Elizabeth of Russia, Saint Petersburg. His father, the future Emperor Peter III, was the nephew and heir apparent of the Empress. The last edition of Catherine's memoirs explained that Peter III was certainly Paul's father after all and why. She lied when hints about another father were written in the first edition, published by Hertzen. His mother, born the daughter of a minor German prince, would later depose her own husband (Paul's father) and reign in her own right as Catherine II, known to history as Catherine the Great. Paul was taken almost immediately after birth from his mother by the Empress Elizabeth, whose overwhelming attention may have done him more harm than good. Once Catherine had done her duty in providing an heir 
Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  Paul I (Па́вел I Петро́вич Pavel I Petrovich; 1 October 1754 – 23 March 1801) was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his assassination. Officially, he was the only son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, although Catherine hinted that he was fathered by her lover Sergei Saltykov. Paul remained overshadowed by his mother for most of his life. He adopted the laws of succession to the Russian throne—rules that lasted until the end of the Romanov dynasty and of the Russian Empire. He also intervened in the French Revolutionary Wars and, toward the end of his reign, added Kartli and Kakheti in Eastern Georgia into the empire, which was confirmed by his son and successor Alexander I. He was de facto Grand Master of the Order of Hospitallers from 1799 to 1801 and ordered the construction of a number of Maltese thrones. Paul's pro-German sentiments and unpredictable behavior made him unpopular among Russian nobility, and he was secretly assassinated by his own officers.
Title: Personality and reputation of Paul I of Russia
Content:  Paul I of Russia was Emperor of all the Russias between 1796 and 1801, when he was deposed and assassinated in a palace coup. During his lifetime contemporaries, both at home and abroad speculated as to his mental health, and modern historians have continued to do so. Paul succeeded to the throne on the death of his mother, Catherine the Great, and almost immediately launched a campaign to revoke her legacy. Paul appears to have borne a great hatred for his mother and her acts as Empress, on account of both his upbringing—a lonely one spent mostly away from court—and the fact that Paul held her responsible for the overthrow 
Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  favourites 50,000 rubles on her birthday, while Paul received a cheap watch. Paul's early isolation from his mother created a distance between them that later events would reinforce. She never considered inviting him to share her power in governing Russia. And once Paul's son Alexander was born, it appeared that she had found a more suitable heir. The use made of his name by the rebel Yemelyan Pugachev, who impersonated his father Peter, tended no doubt to render Paul's position more difficult. Catherine's absolute power and the delicate balance of courtier status greatly influenced the relationship at Court with Paul, who openly disregarded his mother's opinions. Paul adamantly protested his mother's policies, writing a veiled criticism 
Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  grand and ostentatious coronation ceremony, for which event the Russian Imperial Crown was crafted by court jewellers. The 8-year-old Paul retained his position as crown prince.  In 1772, her son and heir, Paul, turned eighteen. Paul and his adviser, Panin, believed he was the rightful tsar of Russia, as the only son of Peter III. His adviser had also taught him that the rule of women endangered good leadership, which was why he was so interested in gaining the throne. Distracting him, Catherine took trouble to find Paul a wife among the minor princesses of the Holy Roman Empire. She chose Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt, who acquired the Russian name "Natalia Alexeievna", a daughter of 
Title: Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Content:  Grand Duke Paul was born on 3 October 1860 at the Catherine Palace, in Saint Petersburg. He was the eighth and youngest child of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his first wife, Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, née Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. As the youngest child in a large family, he was much loved by his parents and siblings. His early years were spent with his two siblings closest in age: his sister Marie, and his brother Sergei, from whom he was inseparable. By the time of Paul's birth, his mother was afflicted with tuberculosis and the doctors advised her not to have more children. Relations between Paul's parents ceased. The family 
Title: Poor Poor Paul
Content: Viktor Sukhorukov – Emperor Paul I of Russia ; Oleg Yankovskiy – Count Pahlen ; Oksana Mysina – Maria Feodorovna, Paul's wife ; Yuliya Mavrina – Anna Lopukhina ; Aleksey Barabash – Alexander, Paul's oldest son ; Anna Molchanova – Elizabeth Alexeievna, Alexander's wife ; Yevgeni Karpov – Konstantin, Paul's son ; Igor Shibanov – Ivan Kutaisov, Paul's valet ; Vadim Lobanov – Alexander Bezborodko ; Sergey Barkovsky – John Rogerson, personal doctor of Catherine the Great ; Boris Khvoshnyansky – José de Ribas ; Andrey Chumanov – Platon Zubov ; Ivan Parshin – Valerian Zubov ; Sergey Murzin – Nikolay Zubov ; Vera Karpova – Baroness Livsi ; Aleksandr Grigoryants – Vincenzo Brenna ; Dmitriy Sutyrin – Duke Yashvil 
Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  Empress Elizabeth died in 1762, when Paul was 8 years old, and he became crown prince with the accession of his father to the throne as Peter III. However, within a matter of months, Paul's mother engineered a coup and not only deposed her husband but, for a long time, was believed to have had him killed by her supporters. It was later found that Peter III probably died due to a fit of apoplexy when exerting himself in a dispute with Prince Feodor, one of his jailers. Some historians believe that he was murdered by a vindictive Alexei Orlov. After the death of Peter III, Catherine then placed herself on the throne in a 
Title: Paul I of Russia
Content:  Paul and Sophie had ten children; eight survived to adulthood (and from whom can be traced 19 grandchildren):
Title: Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
Content:  struck by tragedy in 1865 with the death of Paul's eldest brother, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, when Paul was four years old. The following year, his father, Alexander II, started an affair with Princess Catherine Dolgurokova, who gave him three children. Grand Duke Paul's early years were spent at Tsarskoye Selo and at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, with vacations at Livadia, the family’s Crimean retreat. As time passed and the Empress’ health dictated her to avoid the harsh Russian climate, the Tsarina spent long sojourns abroad with her three youngest children in Jugenheim outside Darmstadt, and the winters in the south of France. Paul was a protected delicate child; he never had a robust constitution.

Question: Who is the mother of Paul I of Russia?
Answer: Catherine II of Russia.
Ekaterina Alexeyevna.
Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst.
Empress Catherine II.
Екатерина II Великая.
Czarina of Russia Catherine II.
Empress of Russia Catherine II.
Catherine II.
Ekaterina II of Russia.
Catherine the Great.