How did Paul I of Russia die?
Paul I of Russia
Paul I (Russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич; Pavel Petrovich) (1 October[O.S. 20 September]1754 – 23 March[O.S. 11 March]1801) reigned as Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. Officially, he was the only son of Peter III and Catherine the Great, though Catherine hinted that he was fathered by her lover Sergei Saltykov, who also had Romanov blood, being a descendant of the first Romanov tsar's sister, Tatiana Feodorovna Romanova.[1]
Paul I of Russia
At great expense, he built three palaces in or around the Russian capital. Much was made of his courtly love affair with Anna Lopukhina.