Catherine the Great

68. Starikova, doc.; Mooser, i: 221; KfZh (1746), 11.

69. AKV, ii: 109.

70. G. M. Zelenskaia, Novyi ierusalim: putevoditel’ (M, 2003), 44–51.

71. PSZ, xiii: 9646, 10 July 1749; 9803, 3 Oct. 1750.

72. Shtelin, Muzyka, 54–5, para. 6.

73. Sochineniia, xii: 265, 150.

74. KfZh (1752), 5–6.

75. KfZh (1757), 68.

76. E. I. Indova, Dvortsovoe khoziaistvo v Rossii: Pervaia polovina XVIII veka, (M, 1964), 202–15, passim. For fruit from Astrakhan, see PSZ, xii: 8997, 20 July 1744; 9186, 8 July 1745.

77. E. Justice, A Voyage to Russia (York, 1739), 16.

78. Pisarenko, Povsednevnaia zhizn’, 515–20; the list probably dates from 1747. For information relating to 1740–1, see Vnutrennii byt Russkago gosudarstva, i: 366– 402.

79. Bespiatykh, Peterburg Anny Ioannovny, 141 (C. R. Berch).

80. PSZ, xii: 9161, 27 May 1745; N. I. Batorevich, Ekateringof: Istoriia dvortsovo-parkovogo ansamblia (SPb, 2006), 83–9.

81. Benois, Tsarskoe Selo, 76–7.

82. Sochineniia, xii: 117.

83. I. Vinogradoff, ‘Russian Missions to London, 1711–1789: Further Extracts from the Cottrell Papers’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, NS 15 (1982), 71, C. to R. Cottrell, 1741.

84. Sochineniia, xii: 254–7.

85. Iu. Ovsiannikov, Franchesko Bartolomeo Rastrelli (Leningrad, 1982), 74.

86. Sochineniia, xii: 320.

87. A. A. Kedrintsev, ‘Iantarnyi zal v Sankt-Peterburge’, in I. P. Sautov, et al, Iantarnaia komnata: Tri veka istorii (SPb, 2003), 110–6. The Amber Room was later transferred to Tsarskoe Selo.

88. Sochineniia, xii: 241, 291.

89. Sochineniia, xii: 181.

90. Sochineniia, xii: 183.

91. B. Kemp, ‘Sir Francis Dashwood’s Diary of his Visit to St Petersburg in 1733’, SEER, 38 (1959–60), 201.

92. PSZ, xi: 8820, 16 Nov. 1743; Sochineniia, xii: 106.

93. S. B. Gorbatenko, Petergofskaia doroga: Oranienbaumskii istoriko-landshaftnyi kompleks (SPb, 2001), 194; Sochineniia, xii: 92–3; 244–5.

94. Gorbatenko, Petergofskaia doroga, 197, 199; Sochineniia, xii: 127.

95. SIRIO, clxviii: 111, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 29 July 1750.

96. Sochineniia, xii: 157.

97. Sochineniia, xii: 273.

98. Sochineniia, xii: 293–4.

99. R. Dimsdale, ‘20 October 1768: Doctor Dimsdale Spends a Day with the Empress’, in Days from the Reigns, ed. Cross, ii: 190.

100. Sochineniia, xii: 260–1.

101. Sochineniia, xii: 296.

102. KfZh (1751), 4–15.

103. Sochineniia, xii: 309, 313–5 (315).

104. Sochineniia, xii: 325.

105. KfZh (1753), 93; PSZ, xiii: 10,103, 27 May 1753.

106. KfZh (1753), 65–6; Sochineniia, xii: 328–30; SIRIO, cxlviii: 519–20, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 4/15 Nov. 1753.

107. AKV, xxxiii: 466–9, ‘O pozhare moskovskago dvortsa’.

108. A. Mikhailov, Arkhitektor D.V. Ukhtomskii: Ego shkola (M, 1954), 171–3.

109. SIRIO, cxlviii: 542, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 20/31 Dec. 1753.

110. KfZh (1753), 74–5; AKV, v, 17.

111. Sochineniia, xii: 329, 332, 324.

112. Sochineniia, xii: 336–7.

113. Sochineniia, xii: 338–9.

Chapter 4

1. Walpole Correspondence, xx: 457–8, Sir H. Mann to Walpole, 13 Dec. 1754 NS.

2. Rovinskii, Obozrenie ikonopisaniia, 244–6.

3. KfZh (1754), 121–4.

4. Sochineniia, xii: 341–7 (341, 345); KfZh (1754), 78–9; McGrew, 29–31.

5. R. Butterwick, Poland’s Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski 1732– 1798 (Oxford, 1998), 86–100; A. Zamoyski, The Last King of Poland (London, 1992), 41–53.

6. Quoted in extenso by Zamoyski, Last King, 58.

7. KfZh (1755), 68–70: 77 men and 44 women were present.

8. V. A. Korentsvit, ‘Krepost’ Peterstadt v Oranienbaume’, in Pamiatniki istorii i kul’tury Peterburga, ed. A. V. Pozdnukhov (SPb, 1994), 208–22.

9. Sochineniia, xii: 307, 355–6.

10. AKV, xxxiii: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to F. D. Bekhteev, 15 June 1756.

11. Uspenskii, Imperatorskie dvortsy, i: 38–9, 41; PSZ: 10,246, 16 June 1754.

12. Sochineniia, xii: 117; Benois, Tsarskoe Selo, 78.

13. AKV, xxxi: 86, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, 19 Dec. 1758.

14. A. N. Petrov, Savva Chevakinskii (Leningrad, 1983), 72, 75–6, 79.

15. Iu. V. Trubinov, Stroganovskii dvorets (SPb, 1996), 38–61.

16. Shcherbatov, 223, 225.

17. A. V. Demkin, Britanskoe kupechestvo v Rossii XVIII veka (M, 1998), 70.

18. Sipovskaia, ‘Obedy’, 162–3.

19. AKV, xxxi: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to M. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin, Feb 1758; 101, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, undated (Jan/Feb 1760); 105, 4/15 Apr. 1760; 110, 24 Oct. 1760.

20. Sochineniia, xii: 391–2.

21. Correspondance, 70, 23 Aug. 1756; 81, 24 Aug.

22. AKV, xxxiii: 32–48. By the same token, no account was taken of Vorontsov’s artistic expenses, for which see S. O. Androsov, ‘Zabytyi russkii metsenat—Graf Mikhail Vorontsov’, PKNO, 2000 (M, 2001), 246–77.

23. SIRIO, clxviii: 466, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 7 July 1753.