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24. [J-L Favier], ‘Russkii dvor v 1761 godu’, RS, Oct. 1878.

25. Cross, 55–8; Demkin, Britanskoe kupechestvo, 128–35.

26. Kazakevich, Tsarskie zastol’ia, 24.

27. AKV, xxxiii: 50, ‘Zapiska prikhodu i raskhodu den’gam na 1754 god’; xxxii: 19, M. L. Vorontsov to I. I. Shuvalov, 27 Oct. 1756.

28. Correspondance, 82, 24 Aug. 1756.

29. Correspondance, 55, 20 Aug. 1756. See also, p. 74, 23 Aug. (cf. 124, 6 Sept.)

30. Correspondance, 197, 6 Oct. 1756.

31. Correspondance, 255, undated, Nov. 1756.

32. SIRIO, vii: 73, C. to Wolff, 11 Nov. 1756.

33. Correspondance, 272, 17 Nov. 1756.

34. SIRIO, cxlviii: 118, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 8 Sept. 1750.

35. SIRIO, cxlviii: 113, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 11 Aug. 1750.

36. Shcherbatov, 195.

37. C. Marsden, Palmyra of the North: The First Days of St Petersburg (London, 1942), 130.

38. SIRIO, cxlviii: 321–2, 28 Jan. 1752; ibid., 332, 7 Mar., prompted by ibid., 309, Newcastle to Guy Dickens, 27 Dec. 1751 NS.

39. Sochineniia, xii: 266.

40. SIRIO, cx: 292–3, Hyndford to Newcastle, 2 Feb. 1749.

41. Correspondance, 121, 6 Sept; KfZh (1758), 112.

42. KfZh (1756), 51, 102; Benois, Tsarskoe Selo, 246– 8.

43. Correspondance, 4, 3 Aug. 1756.

44. Sochineniia, xii: 227.

45. Sochineniia, xii: 224, 219, 225.

46. PSZ, xii: 8908, 3 Apr. 1744.

47. SIRIO, cxlviii: 295, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 26 Nov. 1751; KfZh (1751), 108–9.

48. Sochineniia, xii: 288–9.

49. Sochineniia, xii: 348.

50. Correspondance, 34, 11 Aug. 1756; 45, 18 Aug.

51. Correspondance, 145, 11 Sept. 1756.

52. Frotier de la Messeliere, Voyage a Petersbourg, ou nouveaux memoires sur la Russie (Paris, 1803), 217–8, punctuation adjusted.

53. Sochineniia, xii: 393–5, where the event is misdated to 1758. The mistake recurs in A. L. Porfir’eva, ‘Muzykal’nye razvlecheniia Petra Fedorovicha v Oranienbaume’, in Archivo Russo—Italiano, IV, eds. Daniela Rizzi and A. Shishkin (Salerno, 2005), 340, and also in The Memoirs of Catherine the Great, eds. M. Cruse and H. Hoogenboom (New York, 2005), 178. Alexander, 51, gives 17 June 1757. The chronology of this period in C.’s memoirs is especially unreliable.

54. Zamoyski, Last King, 55.

55. Quoted in Alexander, 51.

56. KfZh (1757), 83.

57. J. L. H. Keep, ‘Feeding the Troops: Russian Army Supply Policies during the Seven Years’ War’, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 28–31 (1987).

58. Bil’basov, i: 332–46.

59. PSZ, xv: 10,940, 5 Apr. 1759, para. 5; KfZh (1759), 42; Sochineniia, xii: 407, 423; Alexander, 53–5.

60. AKV, xxxi: 88, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, 10 Mar. 1759; PSZ, xv: 10,930, 9 Mar. 1759.

Chapter 5

1. G. S. Rousseau, ‘“A strange pathology”: Hysteria in the Early Modern World’, in S. L. Gilman, et al, Hysteria beyond Freud (Berkeley, 1993), 157; L. Brockliss and C. Jones, The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford, 1997), 444.

2. AKV, ii: 633–6.

3. See E. V. Anisimov, ‘I. I. Shuvalov—deiatel’ rossiiskogo Prosveshcheniia’, Voprosy istorii, 1985, no. 7, 94–104.

4. KfZh (1761), 7.

5. KfZh (1760), 175.

6. Alexander, ‘Ivan Shuvalov’, 8.

7. ‘Russkii dvor’,.

8. AKV, iv: 461, 20 Feb. 1761.

9. F.G. Volkov i russkii teatr ego vremeni, 138–43.

10. KfZh (1761), 22. The artist’s name is not given.

11. AKV, iv: 461, 20 Feb. 1761; 462, 23 Feb.

12. Ia. V. Bruk, U istokov russkogo zhanra: XVIII vek (M, 1990), 45, pl. 53–5; AKV, xxxiv: 129.

13. Chappe d’Auteroche, Voyage en Siberie, ed. M. Mervaud, ii: 344–5, SVEC, 2004:04.

14. KfZh (1761), 3–4, 7, 10; AKV, xxi: 84.

15. Zapiski Shtelina, i: 261.

16. ‘Dnevnik statskogo sovetnika Misere’, in Ekaterina: put’ k vlasti, eds. M. Lavrinovich and A. Liberman (M, 2003), 54.

17. AKV, iv: 464, 10 Apr. 1761, A. K. Vorontsova to her daughter, Anna Mikhailovna.

18. AKV, iv: 464–5, 17 Apr. 1761; KfZh (1761); Alexander, ‘Ivan Shuvalov’, 9.

19. AKV, iv: 465, 24 Apr. and 30 Apr. 1761.

20. KfZh (1761), 76, 94, 99, 102, 109, 122.

21. Sochineniia, xii: 785–6.

22. Sochineniia, xii: 613–27, passim.

23. Alexander, 55–7.

24. KfZh (1761), 79–80. For further fires see AKV, iv: 476, 6 July.

25. AKV, iv: 474, 15 June 1761.

26. Bil’basov, i: 418, n. 5, quoting the French ambassador Breteuil. Elizabeth had spent most of the week before at her devotions in her private chapel: KfZh (1761), 100–1.

27. KfZh (1761).

28. AKV: xxxi: 151, circular from M. L. Vorontsov, 19 Dec. 1761.

29. Shtelin, Zapiski, 97; KfZh (1762), 9–10.

30. For daily lists of their respective dining companions in Jan. and Feb., see KfZh (1762), 54–118, 1st pagn.

31. KfZh (1762), 3, 1st pagn.