Paul became Emperor of Russia as soon as his mother breathed her last in 1796. The Mad Emperor Emperor Paul I of Russia reigned for four years before he was assassinated. Maria refused, and Paul’s resentment of her mother only worsened. When his third son Nicholas was born, Catherine persuaded Maria to convince her husband to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of their sons. The Empress and her court often scoffed at him and considered him mad.Ĭatherine and Paul’s relationship worsened when the Empress insinuated that she would bypass him and elevate her grandson Alexander to the throne instead. He terrorized his family with his fits of rage, so his wife was often forced to calm him down. He also inherited his father’s temper, impulsiveness, and cruelty. Paul was also infatuated with military drills-a quirk that irritated his mother as it reminded her of her dead spouse.
She gave birth to their son Alexander I in 1777, and the heir was soon followed by nine more children. What was initially a marriage of convenience turned out to be a good match when Paul and Maria Feodorovna (Sophia Dorothea’s Orthodox name) fell in love. This time she picked the lovely Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg, and the two were married in September 1776. Paul’s first wife died in 1776 after giving birth to a stillborn son, so Catherine once again arranged his marriage to another Prussian princess. She knew that she would have to leave the throne to him after her death, so she allowed him to attend the meetings of the Council to give him some training. In 1773, she arranged his marriage to the Prussian princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. After sending her husband to Ropsha, she then crowned herself Empress of Russia in Moscow.Īlthough the Empress did not neglect him altogether, Paul’s relationship with his mother worsened as the years passed. Catherine, his own wife, deposed him in a coup just five months after he acceded the throne. Emperor Peter III, however, did not reign long. Elizabeth died in 1762 and was soon succeeded by her nephew, the Grand Duke Peter. He rarely saw his own mother, and he was entrusted early on to a tutor named Nikita Ivanovich Panin. Grand Duke Peter, the boy’s father, was busy drinking himself into a stupor somewhere in the palace while the empress was taking the child away from his mother.Īny form of affection failed to grow between mother and son as Paul was raised by Empress Elizabeth in her own household. The baby was named Paul (Pavel) and was kidnapped several minutes later by the childless Empress Elizabeth.
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