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Russian Succession
In 1797 Emperor Paul I established the stable, predictable order
of succession, in which His Throne is reserved firstly to all His valid
male-line male descendants (agnates)
by order of primogeniture, then, upon total extinction of agnates, to His
valid male-line female descendants (cognates
) and to their valid issue by order of substitution. The last,
51st, agnate died in 1992, when the headship was
succeeded by female.
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