Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (113 page)

 1
“Everything was done to deter me”: Haslip, 308

 2
“Your children belong to you”: Troyat, 271

 3
“Your latest proposal”: Rounding, 424

 4
“heavy baggage”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 569

 5
“It was a time”: Haslip, 307

 6
“One day when I was sitting”: Rounding, 429

 7
“Here, the greenery in the meadows”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 176

 8
“Avoid the prince”: Haslip, 310

 9
“the greatest genius of her age”: Ibid., 303

10
“the pleasantest company”: Ibid., 304

11
“It is odd”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 175

12
“Gentlemen, the king of Poland”: Montefiore, 365

13
“It was thirty years”: Ibid., 366

14
“They spoke little”: Haslip, 314

15
“our guest’s desire that I remain here”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 178

16
“The king bores me”: Haslip, 315

17
“The new favorite is good-looking”: Ibid., 317

18
“I performed a great deed”: Cronin, 130

19
“What a peculiar land”: Montefiore, 371

20
“the most beautiful port I have ever seen”: Ibid., 374

21
“I love you and your service”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 180

22
“How I appreciate the feelings”: Ibid., 182

23
“Between you and me, my friend”: Ibid.

 1
“You are impatient”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 398

 2
“Children, I forbid you”: Soloveytchik, 301

 3
“I will try to get it cheaply”: Ibid., 308

 4
“You cannot capture a fortress”: Ibid.

 5
“My dear friend, you alone mean more to me”: Ibid.

 6
“May the Prince Gregory Alexandrovich”: Ibid., 309

 7
“Hurry up, my dear friend”: Ibid.

 8
“If Izmail resists”: Montefiore, 450

 9
“this insane note … Sir John Falstaff”: Alexander, 270

10
“breastplate”: Haslip, 346

11
“We have pulled one paw out”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 414

12
“I here behold a Commander in Chief”: Ibid., 314

13
“Has your ship struck”: Morison, 230

14
“Paul Jones has just arrived: Ibid., 364

15
“I was entirely captivated”: Ibid.

16
“It is to you alone”: Montefiore, 400

17
“Our victory is complete”: Ibid.

18
“I hope to be subjected”: Morison, 382

19
“nobody wished to serve:: Ibid., 384

20
“She then indulged”: Ibid., 387

21
“The charge against me is an unworthy”: Ibid., 388

22
“The accusation against me is false”: Ibid. 513 “Paul Jones is no more guilty than I”: Montefiore, 421

23
“I must pull out the tooth”: Soloveytchik, 326

24
“When one looks at the Prince-Marshal Potemkin”: Ibid., 327

25
“The child sends his greetings”: Ibid., 335

26
“I could not remove him from my path”: Montefiore, 478

27
“Please send me a Chinese dressing gown”: Ibid., 338

28
“the first pianist and one of the best composers”: Montefiore, 482

29
“Take that which”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 389

30
“I’m not going to recover”: Soloveytchik, 340

31
“Tell me frankly”: Ibid.

32
“Good hands”: Ibid., 341

33
“Matushka, oh how sick I am!”: Smith,
Love and Conquest
, 390

34
“I have no more strength”: Ibid., 390

35
“This will be enough”: Soloveytchik, 342

36
“the prince is no longer on this earth”: Ibid., 343

37
“Now I have no one left”: Ibid.

 1
“The Walpole paintings are no longer to be had”: Descargues, 42

 2
“The Comte de Baudoin leaves it”: Ibid., 44

 3
“The world is a strange place”: Ibid.

 4
“We are prodigiously delighted”: Ibid.

 5
“I am a glutton”: Waliszewski, 344

 6
“You should know our mania”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 532

 7
“Now I love to distraction”: Waliszewski, 390

 8
The Captain’s Daughter
appears in Yarmolinski, ed., 599–727

 9
“My posterity is Your Majesty”: Waliszewski, 341 529 “What a charming picture”: Descargues, 26

10
“My paintings are beautiful”: Ibid., 29

11
“They have not made, as I have”: Rounding, 221

12
“There is an old song”: Ibid., 222

13
“I hear only praise”: Ibid.

14
“in general, everyone is very happy”: Ibid.

15
“You will choose honest and reasonable people”: Waliszewski, 350

16
The lines from Pushkin’s “The Bronze Horseman” are cited in Yarmolinski, ed., 106–107

 1
“to God and the country never to be separated”: Schama, 359

 2
“Go tell those who have sent you”: Schama, 363

 3
“null, illegal, and unconstitutional”: Winik, 124

 4
“I fear that the greatest obstacle”: Gooch, 103

 5
“French, Russians, Danes”: Madariaga,
Catherine
, 189

 6
“I cannot believe in the superior talents”: Gooch, 99

 7
“They are capable of hanging their king”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 421

 8
“Above all, I hope”: Gooch, 99

 9
“I am sad to see you go”: Haslip, 341

10
“I am afraid so, Madame”: Ibid.

11
“the Hydra with twelve hundred heads”: Waliszewski, 351

12
“only people who set in motion a machine”: Gooch, 100

13
“Tell a thousand people to draft a letter”: Cronin, 269

14
“the cause of the king of France”: This summary of Catherine’s memorandum is based on Lariviere, 101 ff.

15
“an exemplary and unforgettable act”: Schama, 612

16
“a scum of criminals vomited”: Loomis, 75

17
“I don’t give a damn about the prisoners”: Schama, 633

18
“to protect the republic”: Thompson, 258–9

19
“the foulest and most atrocious act”: Schama, 687

20
“The revolution has no need”: Loomis, 335

21
“Madame, we must go now”: Ibid., 333

22
“The mechanism falls like thunder”: Schama, 621

23
“immediately after the decapitation”:
www.guillotine.dk/Pages/30sek/html
.

 1
“Likely to corrupt morals”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 546

 2
“beastly purpose”: Radishchev, 96

 3
“breaks the head”: Ibid., 97

 4
“Do you know, dear fellow citizens”: Ibid., 153

 5
“has learning enough”: Ibid., 239

 6
“hence the suspicion falls on M. Radishchev”: Ibid., 241

 7
“the purpose of this book is clear”: Ibid., 239

 8
“a rabble-rouser, worse than Pugachev”: Ibid., 11

 9
“I’ve read the book you sent me”: Montefiore, 440

10
“Now I am my own master”: Radishchev, 19

11
“will oppose us with only”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 430

12
“exterminate that nest of Jacobins”: Haslip, 353

13
“I am breaking my head”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 428

14
“Apparently you ignore”: Ibid., “435

15
“soldiers of Her Imperial Majesty”: Haslip, 356

16
“Does the Diet authorize”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 439

17
“Silence means consent”: Ibid. 557 “a Russian province”: Ibid., 440

18
“the whole of Praga”: Ibid., 446

 1
“You probably don’t need this contrivance”: Cronin, 289

 2
“are you not ashamed of yourself?”: Waliszewski, 376

 3
“let me march against the French!”: Kaus, 376

 4
“Madame, you must be gay”: Ibid., 367

 5
“Twenty years ago”: Waliszewski, 391

 6
“I have said it to you before”: Ibid., 412

 7
“It is astonishing”: Troyat, 236

 8
“If you only knew what wonders”: Kaus, 306

 9
“I am making a delicious child”: Troyat, 236

10
“He loves me instinctively”: Oldenbourg, 331

11
“It is sewn together”: Waliszewski, 413

12
“There is in my country”: Troyat, 323

13
“I didn’t know what would become of me”: Cronin, 295

14
“the grand duchess will never be troubled”: Madariaga,
Russia in the
Age
, 576

15
“With the church’s blessing?”: Cronin, 296

16
“King Gustavus is not well”: Ibid., 297

17
“What I have written”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 576

18
“The fact is that the king pretended”:
Memoirs
(Anthony), 321

 1
“The grand duke got out of his sleigh”: Cronin, 299

 2
“Gentlemen, the Empress Catherine is dead”: Ibid., 300

 3
“The subject was the unlimited power”: Madariaga,
Russia in the Age
, 580

 4
“Before I became what I am today”: Haslip, 361

 5
“HERE LIES CATHERINE”:
Anthony, 325

 6
“my name is Catherine II”: Alexander, 265

 7
“Day before yesterday”: Haslip, 361

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
OBERT
K. M
ASSIE
was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include
Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World
(for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography),
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
, and
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
.