HIST 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Holy Roman Empire, Time Point, Nikolay Karamzin
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Catherine the great had a son named paul. Catherine had done the same thing to paul that elizabeth did to her > every time one of his children were born, she would take them away and she would teach/rise them. Paul was extremely paranoid (like his extensible father), unpredictable, etc. However, he did do some good things (allowed alexander radishiev to come back from exile, allowed the leader of the last polish rebellion to come back to his estate, etc. ) > he did have some tendencies towards mercy, but he also had other obsessions that made him unstable and unpredictable. Paul was fascinated by prussian military like his father > reintroduced the. Prussian uniforms back into the military (wasn"t popular reform) Panin began to plot a coup against paul - in order to bring into power the man that they believed to be the best successor to catherine"s legacy - this was alexander i (1805-1825)
