Paul I., Czar of Russia, son of the Empress Catharine II., and her successor in 1796; was a despotic and arbitrary ruler; fought with the allies against France, but entered into an alliance with Napoleon in 1799; was murdered by certain of his nobles as he was being forced to abdicate (1734‒1801).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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