2 “I give eternal freedom”: Oldenbourg, 299
3 “If God permits me to reach St. Petersburg”: Kaus, 296
4 “this godless turmoil”: Alexander, 170
5 “The great sovereign”: Madariaga,
6 “Whomever you represent”: Kaus, 298
7 “a common highway robber”: Oldenbourg, 301
8 “exploits of a brigand”: Troyat, 213
9 “Marquis de Pugachev”: Alexander, 177
10 “this new husband who has turned up”: Haslip, 211
11 “for more than six weeks I have been obliged”: Grey, 162
12 “this motley crowd”: Alexander, 171
13 “What need is there to flog”: Madariaga,
14 “Orenburg has already been besieged”: Alexander, 171
15 “Leave the peasants”: Madariaga,
16 “the suspicion of foreigners”: Alexander, 174
17 “inhabited by all the good-for-nothings”: Ibid.
18 “Since you like hangings so much”: Ibid.
57. THE LAST DAYS OF THE “MARQUIS DE PUGACHEV”
1 “If God gives me power over the state”: Madariaga,
2 “Why does he call himself Tsar Peter?”: Cronin, 180
3 “Extremely shaken”: Alexander, 176
4 “the insolent windbag”: Ibid.
5 “You see, my friend, that Count Panin”: Madariaga,
6 “bad news travels faster than good”: Alexander, 177
7 “How dare you raise your hands”: Madariaga,
8 “infernal monster”: Oldenbourg, 302
9 “Sir, are you master or servant?”: Alexander, 178
10 “refrain from all questioning under torture”: Madariaga,
11 “Pugachev has lived like a scoundrel:” Oldenbourg, 304
12 “Please help to inspire everyone”: Alexander, 179
13 “they wanted to break Pugachev on the wheel”: Ibid.
14 “all that has passed to eternal oblivion”: Ibid., 180
58. VASILCHIKOV
1 “He must appear”: Kaus, 311
2 “good looking, amiable, and a complete nonentity”: Haslip, 198
3 “He is capable of killing me”: Oldenbourg, 310
4 “a kind of male
5 “he must send Vasilchikov away”: Smith,
6 “It was a random choice”: Kaus, 311
59. CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN: PASSION
1 “If I become a general”: Soloveytchik, 43
2 “Sir Lieutenant General and Chevalier”: Smith,
3 “Any news at court?”: Soloveytchik, 67
4 “I do not understand what has reduced him”: Ibid., 68
5 “the state and yourself, Madam”: Ibid., 69
6 “he had conducted himself indiscreetly”: Smith,
7 “After a year spent in great sorrow”: Ibid., 9–10
8 “I remain unmotivated by envy”: Ibid., 18
9 “Sir Lieutenant General”: Ibid., 20
