The book "History of Paul I," written by a professor of Russian history at the University of Dorpat, author of famous works (about Peter I, Catherine the Great, Potemkin, Pososhkov, etc.) A.G. Brickner, first saw the light in 1897 and became the first historical study on a previously forbidden topic. The assassination of the emperor completed the tragic chain of palace coups and the violent elimination of applicants for the Russian throne. Having traced the life path of Paul I, the author comes to the conclusion that the death of Paul is a completely natural result of the reign of the son of Catherine the Great.