Russia Question?

from 1725 to 1796 Russia had 7 monarchs, 4 of them were woman, these woman ruled Russia for 67 years and one of them is even known as "the Great" so how after all that was Salic Law put in place and is there any way to stop this from happing and is there any way to keep Russia under women's power?
 
Before 1797, Russian Succession Law provided for succession according to the will (written or oral) of previous monarch. In real-life situations, that law caused coups d'etat, because each court party or military junta could claim "true" will of securely dead emperor or empress.
In 1796, Prince Pavel Petrovich was crowned as Emperor Paul the First. He was the only son of late Empresss Catherine the Great and had some support among army officers, so he had became the Tsar without much difficulty. However, he hated his mother, considered female monarchy as an abomination of greatest scale, and wanted to establish clear succession rules. So on 5th of April, 1797, he had issued Decree on Succession, which provided for male primogeniture (Salic law). That law was observed by all Russian Emperors after Paul. Only exception was Emperor Nicholas the Second, who abdicated in 1917 for himself and (illegally) for his minor son Prince Alexei, violating latter's doubtless right for the throne, but Nicholas did so only under duress (leading Russian politicians threatened the Tsar with revolution (which was ongoing event, in fact) and extermination of all his family (which happened later despite the abdication)).
 
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