Decrees of Mar. [18] and Apr. 29, 1797 have parallel text in Russian and Polish.
Twenty-seven individual decrees issued by the Emperor Paul I and published by the Russian Senate. Topics include the death of Catherine II and succession of Paul I, the annexation of Poland and declaration of war against Spain, rules of succession to the Russian throne and nobility, the Knights of Malta, coats of arms, and religious and other civil liberties (e.g., for Mennonites) in Russia and its territories (incl. Poland), as well as privileges for some inhabitants of Crimea.
Other topics include treatment of military deserters, landlords and peasants, banking, standards on gold and silver and on minting coins, announcement of the marriage of Paul I's daughter, the Grand Princess Aleksandra, to Archduke Joseph Palatine of Hungary (Joseph, Archduke of Austria), and the death of Paul I's granddaughter, Maria Aleksandrovna.
Decrees were published in Saint Petersburg and/or Moscow between November 6, 1796 and September 14, 1800.
Some decrees are printed in columns; some sheets are printed on both sides, some with numbered pages. Some decrees are printed on full or half-sheets of blue paper. Many have watermarks. Some have manuscript annotations.
For more references to decrees from this period, see I͡U︡.I͡U︡. Bitovt, Ri͡e︡dkīi͡a︡ russkīi͡a︡ knigi i letuchīi͡a︡ izdanīi͡a︡ vosemnadt͡s︡atago vi͡e︡ka, 1905, repr. 1971; and N.P. Likhachev, Katalog letuchikh izdaniĭ i ikh perepechatok: manifesty, ukazy ..., 1895.
Arranged chronologically and housed in conservation box no. 4 under the general call number (given in this record) for the collection of eighteenth-century imperial Russian decrees.
Decrees are listed and numbered, with a brief description of the content of each, in a finding aid prepared by Andrei I. Pliguzov and available in the reading room of the Law Library of Congress: Eighteenth-Century Russian Imperial Decrees in the Law Library of Congress. Paul's decrees are numbers 238-266 in the list. (The number 250 was not used in the list; item 255 is part of item 260.)
Part of a collection acquired by the Library of Congress primarily in 1931 that includes also individual decrees of Elizabeth I, Peter III, and Catherine II. Search under title: Eighteenth-century Russian imperial decrees. Decrees of Paul I appear to have been acquired in 1945 and have accession number LL 5641D1 of the Law Library of Congress dated 12 Mar 45.
Svodnyĭ katalog russkoĭ knigi grazhdanskoĭ pechati vosemnadt͡s︡atogo veka, items 7512-7518