The world's turned upside down.

[Simon Spivack]

Chess Notes (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html) has the following under "6259. Nabokov (C.N. 6202)":

It is known that the future Emperor Paul of Russia and his spouse Maria Fyodorovna paid France an unofficial visit in 1782. To obviate the conventions of protocol, the son of the Empress Elizabeth ...

There are doubts about the father of a son who had such a miserable reign, yet not even the unholy ghost of Gregory Orlov would challenge the identity of the mother: Ekaterina of Anhalt-Zerbst, better known, for some reason, as Catherine the Great.

Let it not be said that I never provide RD Kobe with ammunition in his Winter war.