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Paul offered some resistance, and Nikolay Zubov struck him with a sword, after which the assassins strangled and trampled him to death. Paul's successor on the Russian throne, his 23-year-old son Alexander, was actually in the palace at the time of the killing; he had "given his consent to the overthrow of Paul, but had not supposed that this ...
In 1762, upon succeeding to the imperial throne, Peter III accorded his only son Paul Petrovich (by the future Catherine the Great) the novel title of tsesarevich, he being the first of nine Romanov heirs who would bear it. [2] However, at the time the title was conferred, Paul was recognised as Peter's legal son, but not as his legal heir.
Paul saw round hats and laced shoes as lower-class apparel. [137] Round hats, high cravats and colorful scarves were banned. [69] [115] No excuses were accepted, [106] and punishment was severe. [69] Paul recruited secret police, [60] who searched the streets for men in round hats, whose hats were torn from their heads and burnt. [149]
The Romanov portraits were shot between 1915 and 1916, only months before their 1917 execution at the hands of Lenin The Romanovs' final days, as seen through the eyes of Anastasia Skip to main ...
Konstantin was born in Tsarskoye Selo on 27 April 1779, the second son of the Tsesarevich Paul Petrovich and his wife Maria Fyodorovna, daughter of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg. Of all Paul's children, Konstantin most closely resembled his father both physically and mentally. [2]
A plaque at Petrovich Family Playfields in Sacramento’s Crocker Village development recounts the family history of developer Paul Petrovich, but gives an erroneous location for the Dachau ...
Prince Roman Petrovich was born in the Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg the only son of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia and his wife Princess Milica of Montenegro, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro.
A brief history of Ipatiev House, the fortified mansion where the Romanovs were held captive and executed on that fateful morning in 1918.