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Paul I of Russia
Paul I of Russia, son of Catherine the Great, reigned as emperor from 1796 to 1801. In 1799 he granted a monopoly charter to the Russian-American Company to govern Russian America, and in 1800 he decreed the annexation of the Georgian kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti, completed after his death. Erratic and autocratic, he was murdered by conspirators in 1801.
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