On this day
23 March 1801 -The Assassination of Paul I, Emperor of Russia
On March 23, 2021 by trappedinthe18thOn the 23rd March in 1801, a band of dismissed officers murdered Emperor Paul I at the palace of Saint Michael’s Castle. Some months before it was executed, a conspiracy was orginazed by Counts Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Nikita Petrovich Panin, and Admiral de Ribas, with the alleged support of the British ambassador in