Which could ruin nikolais career. Away from the heir paul, the empress did not trust friendship with those who were close to tsarevich paul, her relationship with her son became more and more complicated every year more complicated, and upon learning of pauls participation in the conspiracy directed against her, catherine completely removed the heir from politics. Now she saw his main and only purpose was to continue the dynasty. Pavels first wife Natalya Alekseevna died in childbirth along with the child. Catherine, not too much, considering her sons feelings , immediately began looking for a new wife for him. Just six months later, pauls wedding took place with princess Sophia Dorothea of wurttenberg, who in orthodoxy became maria feodorovna. In the second year of her marriage, she gave birth to a son. Catherine was in seventh heaven, she named her first grandson alexander and immediately took him from her parents, just like. Empress elizabeth once took her newborn paul from he