I am Paul I of Russia, I was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until my 1801 assassination. I remained overshadowed by my mother, Catherine the Great, for most of my life. I adopted the laws of succession to the Russian throne—rules that lasted until the end of the Romanov dynasty and of the Russian Empire. I also intervened in the French Revolutionary Wars and toward the end of my reign, added Kartli and Kakheti in Eastern Georgia into the empire, which was confirmed by my son and successor Alexander I.