Manually passing page number to paginate tag {% paginate %} tag takes current subpapage number from url address. Can this behaviour be bypassed and page number be passed directly into {% paginate %} tag?
If you're looking to display a set of Elements that simulate a paginated query, you might actually be looking for the offset Query parameter.

Here's an example of fetching a “page” of results based on a number of entriesPerPage and the number of pagesToSkip:

{% set customPageOfEntries = craft.entries()
    .offset(entriesPerPage * pagesToSkip)
    .limit(entriesPerPage)
    .all() %}


Of course, this doesn't include the ability to see how many pages of results you have, or to generate links to other pages of results.