Van wie was Paul I van Rusland?

Paul I Petrovitsj (Russisch: Павел I Петрович, [Pavel I Petrovitsj]) (Sint-Petersburg, 1 oktober 1754 – aldaar, 23 maart 1801) was van 1796 tot 1801 tsaar van Rusland.

Yekaterina Ivanovna Nelidova (Russian: Екатери́на Ива́новна Нели́дова; 1756–1839) was a Russian noblewoman and lady-in-waiting. She was the royal mistress of Paul I of Russia.

Nelidova graduated from the Smolny Institute in 1776 and became a lady-in-waiting, first to Grand Duchess Natalya and then to Grand Duchess Maria alongside her friend and fellow graduate Natalya Borshchova. She had a relationship with Grand Duke Paul, the future monarch, and acted as a successful mediator between him and people he was in conflict with. Nelidova was also noted for her dramatic talents, which endeared her to the crown prince, who liked to stage operas with the participation of people he was close with.

She was an important courtier and her position also led to her relatives' acquiring positions at court. Paul's defense of Nelidova was even documented amid issues of social conformity at Catherine the Great's court. She left her position at court in 1798.

Мавра Исидоровна Юрьева (1780 — 1828) — камер-фрау императрицы Марии Фёдоровны.

Anna Petrovna Lopoechina (Russisch: Анна Петровна Лопухина) (?, 8 november 1777 – Turijn (Italië), 25 april 1805) was een minnares van de Russische tsaar Paul I.

Sophia Stepanovna Razumovskaya (Russian: Софья Степановна Разумовская; née Ushakova (Ушакова); 11 September 1746 – 26 September 1803) was a Russian courtier. She served as maid of honour to empress Catherine the Great. She was married to Peter Kirillovich Razumovsky, and the mistress of Paul I of Russia prior to his marriage, with whom she had a son, Semyon Veliky (1772–1794).