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Count Nikita Petrovich Panin (Russian: Ники́та Петро́вич Па́нин) (1770 - 1837), a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n diplomat, vice-chancellor, State Chancellor 6 Oct 1799 - 18 Nov 1800 (acting) and Foreign Minister of Russia

Foreign Minister of Russia

This is a list of foreign ministers of Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation.-Heads of Posolsky Prikaz, 1549-1699:*Ivan Viskovatyi 1549-62*Andrey Vasilyev 1562-1570*Brothers Vasily and Andrey Shchelkalov 1570-1601...

. He was a nephew of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin was an influential Russian statesman and political mentor to Catherine the Great for the first eighteen years of her reign. In that role he advocated the Northern Alliance, closer ties with Frederick the Great of Prussia and the establishment of an advisory privy...

, son of Petr Ivanovich Panin

Petr Ivanovich Panin

General Count Petr Ivanovich Panin , younger brother of Nikita Ivanovich Panin, fought with distinction in the Seven Years' War and in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, capturing Bender on September 26, 1770. In 1773–1775 he participated in suppressing Pugachev's rebellion. He died...

, son-in-law of Count Vladimir Orlov

Vladimir Orlov

Vladimir Pavlovich Orlov was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR in 1985-1988.-References:*...

. Nikita P. Panin plotted the assassination of Paul I of Russia

Paul I of Russia

Paul I was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801. He also was the 72nd Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta .-Childhood:...

together with Count Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen and the Russo-Neapolitan Admiral José de Ribas

José de Ribas

José Pascual Domingo de Ribas y Boyons known in Russia as Osip Mikhailovich Deribas was a Russian admiral of Spanish-Irish origin who founded the city of Odessa...

. Ribas died before the assassination, which was actually carried out on March 23 [O.S. 11 March] 1801 by a band of dismissed officers headed by General Bennigsen

Levin August, Count von Bennigsen

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, a Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

ian in the Russian service, and General Yashvil

Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil

Prince Vladimir Mikhailovich Yashvil was a Russian general of Georgian noble origin personally involved in the assassination of Paul I of Russia...

, a Georgian. The assassination brought Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....

to the throne.

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