21 “I knew nothing about love”: Ibid., 46
22 “My parents will not wish it”:
23 “He was very good looking”:
2. SUMMONED TO RUSSIA
1 “The empress is charmed”: Kaus, 19
2 “At the explicit command”: Ibid., 25
3 “I will no longer conceal”: Ibid., 26
4 “She lacked only wings”: Ibid., 27
5 “Next to the empress”: Ibid., 28
6 “The prince, my husband”: Ibid.
7 “She told me”:
3. FREDERICK II AND THE JOURNEY TO RUSSIA
1 “ambition, the opportunity for gain”: Ritter, 7
2 “opera, comedy, poetry, dancing”:
3 “the entire company”: Oldenbourg, 21
4 “Accept this gift”:
5 “The little princess of Zerbst”: Haslip, 24
6 “My Lord: I beg you”: Oldenbourg, 59
7 “The bedchambers were unheated”: Waliszewski, 23
8 “I had never seen anything”:
9 “In these last days”: Anthony, 69
10 “I found ready to wrap us”: Ibid., 71
11 “Here everything goes on”: Ibid.
12 “It is the bride”: Kaus, 42
4. EMPRESS ELIZABETH
1 “loved both his girls”: Rice, 15
2 “My father often repeated”: Bain,
3 “She is a beauty”: Massie,
4 “I was too young then”: Rice, 48
5 “knew of no other family”: Ibid.
6 “Your Majesty may create me”: Ibid., 61
7 “In public”: Longworth, 162
8 “exceedingly obliging and affable”: Rice, 47
9 “Madame, you must choose”: Ibid., 57
5. THE MAKING OF A GRAND DUKE
1 “I don’t belive there is a princess”: Massie, 806
2 “I am Russian, remember”: Bain,
3 “the happiest day of my life”: Oldenbourg, 48
4 “I see that Your Highness”: Bain,
5 “utterly frivolous”: Ibid., 14
6 “extremely weak”: Ibid., 15
7 “This will be your last”: Oldenbourg, 52
8 “I cannot express”: Bain,
9 “One promised”: Oldenbourg, 53
10 “as he spoke”: Ibid.
6. MEETING ELIZABETH AND PETER
1 “I could wait no longer”: Kaus, 43
2 “All I have done for you”: Ibid.
3 “It was quite impossible”:
