4 “one of the most handsome men”: Ibid., 61
5 “We are living like queens”: Kaus, 53
6 “for the first ten days”:
7 “because his aunt wished it”: Ibid.
8 “I blushed to hear”: Ibid.
7. PNEUMONIA
1 “the external forms”: Madariaga,
2 “Search yourself with care”: Anthony, 82
3 “The change of religion”: Ibid., 81
4 “There I lay with a high fever”:
5 “the devil would take her”: Oldenbourg, 68
6 “Call Simon Todorsky”: Anthony, 83
7 “the ladies would speak”: Herzen, 28,
8 “my mother’s behavior”:
9 “I had become as thin as a skeleton”:
10 “My Lord, I make so bold”: Oldenbourg, 68
11 “Our good prince”: Kaus, 58
12 “I have had more trouble”: Ibid., 59
8. INTERCEPTED LETTERS
1 “If the empress would give”: Kaus, 50
2 “frivolous, indolent, running to fat”: Haslip, 34
3 “This horseplay will stop”: Herzen, 29
4 “If your mother has done something wrong”:
9. CONVERSION AND BETROTHAL
1 “She slept soundly”: Oldenbourg, 74
2 “I thought she was lovely”: Ibid., 75
3 “The forehead, eyes, neck, throat”: Ibid., 76
4 “I had learned it by heart”: Anthony, 84
5 “Her bearing … through the entire ceremony”: Ibid.
6 “real little monsters, both of them”: Oldenbourg, 77
7 “The ceremony lasted four hours”: Ibid., 78
8 “Our situation is the same”: Ibid. 64 “one was almost suffocated”:
9 “My daughter conducts herself”: Oldenbourg, 79
10 “There was not a day”:
11 “I know that Your Highness has sent my brother”: Kaus, 65
12 “use my influence”:
10. A PILGRIMAGE TO KIEV AND TRANSVESTITE BALLS
1 “pedagogues”:
2 “got into ours”: Ibid., 74
3 “We allowed only the most amusing”: Ibid.
4 “While we were enjoying ourselves”: Ibid.
5 “Knowing how easily excited”: Ibid., 75
6 “When my mother was in a temper”: Ibid.
7 “In truth, at that time”: Ibid.
8 “Never in my whole life”: Ibid., 76
9 “I was afraid of not being liked”: Ibid., 77
10 “My respect for the empress”: Ibid.
11 “I must say”: Ibid., 78
12 “The very tall Monsieur Sievers”: Ibid.
