14 “in general, everyone is very happy”: Ibid.
15 “You will choose honest and reasonable people”: Waliszewski, 350
16 The lines from Pushkin’s “The Bronze Horseman” are cited in Yarmolinski, ed., 106–107
70. “THEY ARE CAPABLE OF HANGING THEIR KING FROM A LAMPPOST!”
1 “to God and the country never to be separated”: Schama, 359
2 “Go tell those who have sent you”: Schama, 363
3 “null, illegal, and unconstitutional”: Winik, 124
4 “I fear that the greatest obstacle”: Gooch, 103
5 “French, Russians, Danes”: Madariaga,
6 “I cannot believe in the superior talents”: Gooch, 99
7 “They are capable of hanging their king”: Madariaga,
8 “Above all, I hope”: Gooch, 99
9 “I am sad to see you go”: Haslip, 341
10 “I am afraid so, Madame”: Ibid.
11 “the Hydra with twelve hundred heads”: Waliszewski, 351
12 “only people who set in motion a machine”: Gooch, 100
13 “Tell a thousand people to draft a letter”: Cronin, 269
14 “the cause of the king of France”: This summary of Catherine’s memorandum is based on Lariviere, 101 ff.
15 “an exemplary and unforgettable act”: Schama, 612
16 “a scum of criminals vomited”: Loomis, 75
17 “I don’t give a damn about the prisoners”: Schama, 633
18 “to protect the republic”: Thompson, 258–9
19 “the foulest and most atrocious act”: Schama, 687
20 “The revolution has no need”: Loomis, 335
21 “Madame, we must go now”: Ibid., 333
22 “The mechanism falls like thunder”: Schama, 621
23 “immediately after the decapitation”: www.guillotine.dk/Pages/30sek/html.
71. DISSENT IN RUSSIA, FINAL PARTITION OF POLAND
1 “Likely to corrupt morals”: Madariaga,
2 “beastly purpose”: Radishchev, 96
3 “breaks the head”: Ibid., 97
4 “Do you know, dear fellow citizens”: Ibid., 153
5 “has learning enough”: Ibid., 239
6 “hence the suspicion falls on M. Radishchev”: Ibid., 241
7 “the purpose of this book is clear”: Ibid., 239
8 “a rabble-rouser, worse than Pugachev”: Ibid., 11
9 “I’ve read the book you sent me”: Montefiore, 440
10 “Now I am my own master”: Radishchev, 19
11 “will oppose us with only”: Madariaga,
12 “exterminate that nest of Jacobins”: Haslip, 353
13 “I am breaking my head”: Madariaga,
14 “Apparently you ignore”: Ibid., “435
15 “soldiers of Her Imperial Majesty”: Haslip, 356
16 “Does the Diet authorize”: Madariaga,
17 “Silence means consent”: Ibid. 557 “a Russian province”: Ibid., 440
18 “the whole of Praga”: Ibid., 446
72. TWILIGHT
1 “You probably don’t need this contrivance”: Cronin, 289
2 “are you not ashamed of yourself?”: Waliszewski, 376
