8 “to glorify yourselves and your country”: Alexander, 112
9 “I brought them together to study laws”: Troyat, 181
10 “Have they really already lost”: Alexander, 115
11 “The peasant has his feelings”: Madariaga,
12 “The majority of votes”: Ibid., 159
13 “And have their throats cut from time to time”: Ibid., 160
14 “cannot have in present circumstances”: Ibid.
15 “A general emancipation”: Alexander, 116
16 “What had I not to suffer”: Anthony, 215
17 “The idea that the principal purpose”: Madariaga,
53. “THE KING WE HAVE MADE”
1 “I am sending Count Keyserling”: Kaus, 262
2 “fortunate anarchy”: Alexander, 123
3 “There is a vast difference between melons”: Kaus, 264
4 “to resort, if need be, to force of arms”: Ibid., 265
5 “without the slightest mercy”: Alexander, 126 367 “Do not laugh at me”: Kaus, 263
6 “I beg you most urgently not to come here”: Coughlan, 228
7 “a thousand inconveniences”: Ibid.
8 “in the hands of the brothers Orlov”: Ibid., 229
9 “I beg of you to listen to me”: Kaus, 263
10 “the new king we have made”: Ibid., 266
54. THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND AND THE FIRST TURKISH WAR
1 “a real thunderbolt for the country and for me”: Coughlan, 233
2 “to prevent a quarter of their nation”: Gooch, 64
3 “what does one have to endure”: Alexander, 129
4 “at the risk of repeating myself”: Haslip, 182
5 “I cannot keep writing to you”: Ibid.
6 “in Poland one only has to stoop”: Anthony, 203
55. DOCTORS, SMALLPOX, AND PLAGUE
1 “If you go to a village”: Cronin, 167
2 “the same attention to cleanliness”: Madariaga,
3 “I am quite sick”: Alexander, 144
4 “It has been four years”: Ibid., 143
5 “You couldn’t cure a flea bite”: Cronin, 169
6 “Well done, ma’am!”: Ibid., 169
7 “You know I am a child”: Alexander, 145
8 “uncommon merit, beautiful, and immensely rich”: Ibid.
9 “I am very upset”: Ibid.
10 “Having this hour learned”: Ibid.
11 “of all that I ever saw of her sex”: Cronin, 168
12 “a secret everybody knows”: Alexander, 146
13 “except for some slight uneasiness”: Ibid., 147
14 “My objective was”: Ibid.
15 “our argumentative charlatans”: Ibid., 148
16 “fine and zealous”: Reddaway, 135
17 “The famous Eighteenth Century”: Ibid.
18 “We have spent a month in circumstances”: Alexander, 158
56. THE RETURN OF “PETER THE THIRD”
1 “freedom of the rivers”: Madariaga,
