One of Paul's first acts was to do honor to the memory of his father, Peter III, who had been privately buried by his mother's orders at the monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky. He caused the remains to be exhumed and encased in a gorgeous casket to match that which held the body of Catherine, and proceeded with great pomp to have a joint funeral. The coffins containing his parents' remains were placed close together side by side, covered with an inscription in immortelles which read "Parted in Life, United in Death."
With a refinement of revenge which was quite civilized compared with what Peter the Great would have done, he caused the assassins of his father, the notorious Alexis Orloff and Prince Baradinsky, to walk beside his father's coffin as chief mourners.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
