Catherine the Great

12 “like a fifteen-year-old boy”: Ibid., 1:98

13 “I go now with the army”: Alexander, 9

14 “Didn’t I always tell you”: Bain, Peter III, 154

15 “We no longer have an emperor!”: Ibid., 160

16 “I accept the offer”: Ibid., 161

17 “I, Peter, of my own free will”: Kaus, 233

18 “like a child being sent to bed”: Ibid.

44. “WE OURSELVES KNOW NOT WHAT WE DID”

 1 “the greatest misfortune of my life”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 31

 2 “By what right”: Dashkova, 1:89

 3 “I realized with unspeakable pain”: Ibid., 1:90

 4 “I beg Your Majesty”: Peter’s letters from Ropsha to Catherine, Anthony, 176–77

 5 “Matushka, Little Mother”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 32,

 6 “His face wore an expression”: Oldenbourg, 252

 7 “We ourselves know not what we did”: Kaus, 244

 8 “My horror at this death”: Dashkova, 1:107

 9 “On the seventh day of our reign”: Kaus, 246

10 “might spare her health”: Troyat, 139

11 “Peter III had lost the few wits”: Bain, Peter III, 191

12 “it teaches us to be sober”: Cronin, 156

13 “The empress was quite ignorant of this crime”: Haslip, 133

14 “What do they say in Paris”: Anthony, 180

45. CORONATION

 1 “The least soldier of the guards”: Alexander, 67

 2 “You only did your duty”: Cronin, 172

 3 “I implore Your Majesty”: Dashkova, 1:97

 4 “the Princess Dashkova played only a minor part”: Haslip, 144,

 5 The exchange between Catherine and Betskoy is from Dashkova, 1:101–2, and Kaus, 240

 6 “a woman of middle height”: Scott Thomson, 85–86

 7 “the Lord has placed the crown”: Grey, 119

 8 “I cannot go out”: Ibid.

46. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH

 1 “In the Treasury”: Waliszewski, 313

 2 “an ignominious peace”: Kaus, 239

 3 “no suitable costume”: Ibid.

 4 “Concerning the peace”: Ibid.

 5 “such a vast and limitless empire”: Haslip, 137

 6 “Full reports will be brought to me”: Ibid.,

 7 “Belonging herself to the nation”: Ibid.

 8 “I cannot say that you are lacking”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 44

 9 “the eye of the sovereign”: Ibid., 40

10 “In the Senate”: Ibid., 44–45

11 “You must know”: Ibid., 58

12 “sat like dumb dogs without barking”: Ibid., 116

13 “stretch out their hands”: Kaus, 254

14 “Our present sovereign”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 116

15 “Stop his mouth!”: Ibid. 301 Andrew the Liar: Ibid., 117

16 “You are the successors”: Kaus, 255

47. SERFDOM

 1 “For sale, a barber”: Oldenbourg, 285