C’s misery as his consort 100
and Anna Petrovna’s birth 104
accession 114
daily routine 114–15
and Elizabeth’s funeral 116–17
pro-Prussian 117, 118, 120
emancipates nobility from compulsory state service 118–19
plans to attack the Danes 120, 121
insults C at a banquet 122, 143
overthrown and assassinated 4, 11–14, 123–5, 161, 315, 321
paltry burial 317, 319
Paul’s resentment of C’s treatment of him 218, 319
requiem service at the Winter Palace 319
funeral with C 319–20
Peter of Courland, Duke 230
Peter-Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg 3, 5, 42, 115, 116, 299, 314, 319
Peter-Paul Fortress, St Petersburg 3, 44, 57, 127, 204, 327
Peterhof, near St Petersburg 78, 82, 95, 100, 108, 112, 113, 123, 124, 140, 178–9, 208, 211, 215, 216, 234, 235, 250, 256, 258, 267, 275, 278, 334
English Park 265
Petrov, Metropolitan Gavriil 127, 161, 162, 178, 221, 267, 294, 315
Petrov, Vasily 17–18
Petrovsky Palace, Moscow 88, 273
Petrovsky woods 169
Philip II, Duke, of Pomerania-Stettin 24
Philip V, King of Spain 37
Picart, Pieter 256
Picquet (dancer) 279
Pietism 26, 27, 28, 38, 51
Pitt, William, the Younger 298, 299, 311
Plague of 1 771 206—7, 209, 215
Plutarch 310
Podobedov, Metropolitan Amvrosy 320, 322
Podolia 290
Poissonnier, Francois 108–9
Pokrovskoye 127
Poland
C’s support for Orthdox fanatics in 183
Chernyshev eager to annexe Polish territory 185
C’s ambitions in 186, 187
Frederick the Great’s ambitions 186, 207
first partition 217, 250
Potemkin’s claims in 255
Potemkin builds up his estates in 290
Fox’s support 299
new constitution 301
complexity of the Polish question 309
second partition 309
massacre of Poles at Praga 309
third partition 309–10
Polevoy, Nikolay 327
police boards 255
Police Ordinance 255
Polish Deputies 267
Pollnitz, Baron 29
Polotsk 251, 252, 278
Poltava 287
battle of (1709) 41, 93
Pomerania 24
Poniatowski, Count Stanislaw August 100, 106, 113, 118, 132, 286
Hanbury-Williams’ protege 93
as C’s lover 93–4, 95, 103
personality 93
and birth of Anna Petrovna 104–5
returns to Poland 106
C promises to make him king 185
elected King of Poland (1764) 186
C renews her acquaintanceship with him 284, 287
and the new Polish constitution 301
shattering of his dreams of autonomy 309
Poroshin, Semen 140, 147, 152
Postal Chancellery 8, 158
Potemkin, Grigory 6, 203, 236, 246, 252, 260, 269, 291, 306
relationship with C 6, 27, 229, 231–2, 234, 238, 241, 265, 301
besieges the Turks on the Danube 229
supplants Vasilchikov 229
first presented to C 230–31
appearance 232
links with the clergy 232
incipient rivalry with Panin 236
and Orlov’s illness 242
and Anichkov Palace 242
and Zorich 243
celebration of Constantine’s birth 249
obsession ‘with the idea of raising an Empire in the east’ 249
supports a rapprochement with Austria 250
arranges marriages for his nieces 255
C’s gift of a Sevres service 262
and Crimean rebellion 263
Governor General of the Tauride 263–4
comforts the bereaved C 268
and Yermolov 270
visits Moscow with C 272, 274
insatiable ambitions in the South 280
and Dmitryev-Mamonov 280
and Samuel Bentham 282
