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2. Paul 1er (Petrowitch), son of Pierre III. and Catherine IL,

1754-1801. He succeeded to his father in 1762, and after Ms mother's death (1796), adopted a Une of conduct quite différent from that of Ms TOedecessor, which he, however, suddenly altered again. The nobles, dissatisfied with his

e>licy, plotted against him, and he was strangled in 1801. is son Alexander I. succeeded him.

Sibérie ; as early as 1242, a Khanate, fonnded by the Tartars, with Sibir, on the Irtisch, as its capitaL A turbulent Cossack chief, Jermak Timoziseff, fiirnished the Russian Government with a pretext for making the conquest of the country, which was oegun towards the end of the fifteenth century under the Emperor Ivan the Terrible, and towards the end of the sixteenth century the whole eastem part passed into the hands of Russia. It is there criminals and political offenders are generally banished.

St. PétersbOTirgr, or simply Pétersbourg, capital of the Russian empire, a supero but most unhealthy town, built partly on swampy eyots formed by the Neva. The site on which it stands was a marsh untu the eighteenth century, when Peter the Great laid the foundations of the new city and fortress, in the raising of which 100,000 — some say 200,000 — men perished. He made it the new capital of the empire, and gave it the German name of Peter's Burg.

3. fit assez de bruit dans le temps ; lit. made enough noise ;

erecUedf at the time, enough sensation; was talfced abotU enough,