Tsar Paul Strangled
March 23, 1801
In a midnight coup at St. Michael's Castle, a gang of drunk guardsmen broke into the bedroom of the erratic Tsar Paul I and strangled him with a scarf. His son Alexander, twenty-three, was in the next wing, knowing and not knowing. He ascended the Russian throne with blood on his conscience he would never quite wash off.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1800: Volta's Electric Pile
- After: March 25, 1802: Peace of Amiens
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.