Catherine the Great

 2 “Children, I forbid you”: Soloveytchik, 301

 3 “I will try to get it cheaply”: Ibid., 308

 4 “You cannot capture a fortress”: Ibid.

 5 “My dear friend, you alone mean more to me”: Ibid.

 6 “May the Prince Gregory Alexandrovich”: Ibid., 309

 7 “Hurry up, my dear friend”: Ibid.

 8 “If Izmail resists”: Montefiore, 450

 9 “this insane note … Sir John Falstaff”: Alexander, 270

10 “breastplate”: Haslip, 346

11 “We have pulled one paw out”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 414

12 “I here behold a Commander in Chief”: Ibid., 314

13 “Has your ship struck”: Morison, 230

14 “Paul Jones has just arrived: Ibid., 364

15 “I was entirely captivated”: Ibid.

16 “It is to you alone”: Montefiore, 400

17 “Our victory is complete”: Ibid.

18 “I hope to be subjected”: Morison, 382

19 “nobody wished to serve:: Ibid., 384

20 “She then indulged”: Ibid., 387

21 “The charge against me is an unworthy”: Ibid., 388

22 “The accusation against me is false”: Ibid. 513 “Paul Jones is no more guilty than I”: Montefiore, 421

23 “I must pull out the tooth”: Soloveytchik, 326

24 “When one looks at the Prince-Marshal Potemkin”: Ibid., 327

25 “The child sends his greetings”: Ibid., 335

26 “I could not remove him from my path”: Montefiore, 478

27 “Please send me a Chinese dressing gown”: Ibid., 338

28 “the first pianist and one of the best composers”: Montefiore, 482

29 “Take that which”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 389

30 “I’m not going to recover”: Soloveytchik, 340

31 “Tell me frankly”: Ibid.

32 “Good hands”: Ibid., 341

33 “Matushka, oh how sick I am!”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 390

34 “I have no more strength”: Ibid., 390

35 “This will be enough”: Soloveytchik, 342

36 “the prince is no longer on this earth”: Ibid., 343

37 “Now I have no one left”: Ibid.

69. ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE BRONZE HORSEMAN

 1 “The Walpole paintings are no longer to be had”: Descargues, 42

 2 “The Comte de Baudoin leaves it”: Ibid., 44

 3 “The world is a strange place”: Ibid.

 4 “We are prodigiously delighted”: Ibid.

 5 “I am a glutton”: Waliszewski, 344

 6 “You should know our mania”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 532

 7 “Now I love to distraction”: Waliszewski, 390

 8 The Captain’s Daughter appears in Yarmolinski, ed., 599–727

 9 “My posterity is Your Majesty”: Waliszewski, 341 529 “What a charming picture”: Descargues, 26

10 “My paintings are beautiful”: Ibid., 29

11 “They have not made, as I have”: Rounding, 221

12 “There is an old song”: Ibid., 222

13 “I hear only praise”: Ibid.