Czar Paul had never been fond of his mother, disdaining her politically for her enthusiasm for European philosophies and personally for her alleged role in the murder of his father. Paul decided that it was time to exert the role of the Russian government in the affairs of Russian America. Rezanov was a minor noble with some access to the court, and he was all too willing to lobby for the same solution that Shelikhov had proposed almost a decade before.
