death_date birth_date signature reign father house death_place coronation spouse image name predecessor succession birth_place issue type successor mother religion burial_place article_title
23 march 1801 1 october 1754 20 september signaturepauli.jpg 17 november 1796 -- 23 march 1801 peter iii holstein-gottorp-romanov st michael 's castle 5 april 1797 wilhelmina louisa of hesse-darmstadt sophie dorothea of württemberg borovikovskiy ptpavla1grm.jpg paul i catherine ii emperor and autocrat of all the russias st petersburg alexander pavlovich alexandra , archduchess of austria elena , hereditary grand i duchess of mecklenburg-schwerin maria , grand duchess of saxe-weimar-eisenach catherine , , queen of württemberg grand duchess olga pavlovna anna , emperor queen of the netherlands nikolai i , emperor of russia of grand duke michael pavlovich russia grand duke konstantin monarch alexander i catherine ii eastern orthodox peter and paul cathedral paul i of russia

paul i of russia

paul i -lrb- ; `` pavel petrovich '' -rrb- -lrb- -- -rrb- was the emperor of russia between 1796 and 1801 .
officially , he was the only son of peter iii and catherine the great , though catherine is said to have later stated that he was fathered by her lover sergei saltykov .
he remained overshadowed by his mother for much of his life .
paul 's reign lasted for only five years , ending with his assassination by conspirators .
his most important achievement was the adoption of the laws of succession to the russian throne that lasted until the end of the romanov dynasty and the russian empire .
he became `` de facto '' grand master of the order , and orders the creation of a in the vorontsov palace in st. petersburg -lrb- now on display in the state hermitage museum -rrb- .
