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Paul I: The Cursed Emperor and His Palace Coup
Tsar Paul I, son of Catherine the Great, reigned only five years before being strangled in his own bedroom. This episode unpacks the strange, tragic story of Russia's most paranoid emperor: his obsessive military drills, his quixotic crusade against the French Revolution, his brutal crackdown on the nobility, and the conspiracy that ended his life. We explore the unfinished Mikhailovsky Castle—built like a fortress to protect him—and the betrayal by his own son, the future Alexander I. Was Paul truly mad, or just a reformer ahead of his time? We examine the Pavlovian reaction that…
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