2 “Anyone wishing to buy”: Waliszewski, 304
3 “For sale: domestics and skilled craftsmen”: Grey, 122
4 “If we do not agree”: Ibid., 164
5 “There! You have the people free!”: Cronin, 262
6 “What has disgusted me”: Grey, 122
7 “I punished him”: Smith,
8 “This is one of my fiddlers”: Ibid. 312 “a miracle of color”: Ibid., 70
9 “I had the most tender”: Ibid., 71
48. “MADAME ORLOV COULD NEVER BE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA”
1 “The men who surround me”: Haslip, 143
2 “Perhaps you are right”: Alexander, 74
3 “Tell Her Imperial Majesty”: Kaus, 271
4 “everyone should go about his own business”: Ibid., 273
5 “If the empress wants me to lay my head”: Haslip, 149
6 “It is my earnest desire”: Dashkova, 1:128
7 “There would never”: Smith,
8 “You will not be surprised”: Haslip, 178
49. THE DEATH OF IVAN VI
1 “Take care!”: Kaus, 277
2 “If the prisoner is insubordinate”: Ibid.
3 “The prisoner is somewhat quieter”: Ibid.
4 “painful and almost unintelligible stammering”: Ibid., 278
5 “The prisoner shall not be allowed”: Ibid., 280
6 “Release us”: Ibid.
7 “Compliance with your request”: Ibid.
8 “Make your own career, young man”: Ibid., 282
9 “Not long had Peter III possessed”: Madariaga,
10 “If the others agree”: Kaus, 285
11 “Where is the emperor?”: Alexander, 91
12 “See, my brothers”: Kaus, 285
13 “The ways of God are wonderful”: Madariaga,
14 “she left here with an air”: Waliszewski, 264
15 “As regards the insult”: Kaus, 287
16 “loyally performing their duty”: Ibid., 288
17 “The manifesto she has issued”: Troyat, 167
18 “It seems to me that if I were on the throne”: Ibid.
19 “I am tempted to say to you”: Ibid.
50. CATHERINE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1 “Whatever style I possess”: Haslip, 157
2 “The victorious nation never profits”: Durant, 10:151
3 “Oh, mighty God, I believe”: Ibid., 9:750
4 “Tell them I am very sick”: Ibid., 10:133
5 “the highest and coldest garret”: Ibid.
6 “hanged, drowned, broken on the wheel”: Ibid., 9:731
7 “It took two hours”: Ibid., 9:733
8 “I shall be coming to Paris”: Ibid., 10:392
9 “For my part, I am consoled”: Ibid., 10:139
10 “He governed the whole civilized world”: Ibid., 9:784
11 “Since Voltaire died”: Anthony, 229
