Catherine the Great

 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

73. THE DEATH OF CATHERINE THE GREAT

 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

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROBERT K. MASSIE 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.