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from the Hillwood Museum (Alexandria, VA, 1998), 212–4.

87. KfZh (1795), appendix ii, 122, 173, 175.

88. KfZh (1795), appendix ii, 185–6.

89. Memoirs of Countess Golovine: A lady at the Court of Catherine II, trans. G. M. Fox-Davies (London, 1910), 129.

90. Alexander, 321; Grimm, 570, 13 Aug. 1792; KfZh (1795), appendix ii, 234, 246, 248; ibid. (1796), 34.

91. Grimm, 669, 18 Feb. 1796.

92. Grimm, 583, 14 May 1793.

93. Khrapovitskii, 404, 9–11 July 1792; Grimm, 618, 16 Jan. 1795; KfZh (1795), 65–80, 89–90.

94. Quoted in W. B. Lincoln, Nicholas I: Emperor and autocrat of all the Russias (London, 1978), 49.

95. Khrapovitskii, 378, 16 Oct. 1791.

96. Sochineniia, xii: 702; SIRIO, xlii: 267. Cf. Alexander, 297–9.

97. Grimm, 591, 11 Feb. 1794.

98. Parkinson, 226, 18 Feb. 1794.

99. Tooke, iii: 434.

100. Stedingk, 81–2, 14 Feb. 1791 NS; A. Gribovskii, Zapiski o Imperatritse Ekaterine Velikoi, 2nd edn. (M, 1864), 29.

101. C. F. P. Masson, Memoires secrets sur la russie pendant les regnes de Catherine II et de Paul Ier (Paris, 1863), 70–1.

102. Alexander, 322–4.

103. KfZh (1796), 667–76; 724–5; RBS, Pritits-Reis (SPb 1910), ‘Anna Protasova’.

104. Alexander, 324–5; McGrew, 187–9; KfZh (1796), 736–48.

Epilogue

1. Karlik favorita: Istoriia zhizni Ivana Iakubovskago, ed. V. P. Zubov (Munich, 1968), 41.

2. Zapiski, mneniia i perepiska admiral A. S. Shishkova, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1870), i: 9–10.

3. Wortman, Scenarios, 171–2; McGrew, 210.

4. Madariaga, 569–70; McGrew, 184–5, 190, and ch. 6 passim.

5. Parkinson, 22–3, 143.

6. Memoirs of Countess Golovine, 129.

7. See Hughes, ‘The funerals of the Russian emperors and empresses’, 395–419.

8. Memoirs of Countess Golovine, 130–2.

9. M. B. Asvarishch, et al, Tsareubiistvo 11 Marta 1801 goda (SPb, 2001), 69, no. 24.

10. McGrew, 194.

11. Asvarishch, Tsareubiistvo, 24–32.

12. Asvarishch, Tsareubiistvo, 67, no. 28.

13. Wortman, Scenarios, 172–3; M. Safonov, Zaveshchanie Ekateriny II: Roman-issledovanie (SPb, 2002), 216–26; Asvarishch, Tsareubiistvo, 23, no. 22.

14. Asvarishch, Tsareubiistvo, 69, no. 25.

15. Zapiski A. A. Iakovleva, byvshego v 1803 godu ober-prokurorom Sv. Sinoda, ed. V. A. Andreev (M, 1915), 36, note; Sobranie rechei…Amvrosiem Mitropolitom Novgorodskim i Sanktpeterburgskim (M, 1810), 17, 66–7.

16. P. Hayden, ‘Tsarskoe Selo: The History of the Ekaterininskii and Aleksandrovskii Parks’, in A sense of place: Tsarskoe Selo and its poets, eds. L. Loseff and B. Scherr (Columbus, OH, 1993), 28.

17. A. Makhrov, ‘Architecture and politics: Catherine the Great’s “Greek Project” in the works of Nikolai L’vov’, SGECRN, 26 (1998), 12; Wortman, Scenarios, 153, 160, 172–3.

18. McGrew, ch. 10.

19. PSZ, xxvi: 19,779, 12 Mar. 1801. This section draws in revised form on materials first discussed in my article, ‘The posthumous reputation of Catherine II in Russia, 1797–1837’, SEER, 77 (1999), 646–79, where further references may be found.

20. A. G. Cross, ‘Contemporary responses (1762–1810) to the personality and career of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, NS 27 (1994), 56; The Russian Journals of Martha and Catherine Wilmot, ed. the Marchioness of Londonderry and H.M. Hyde (London, 1935), 52, Martha’s Journal, 23 Sept. 1803.

21. A. Malinovskii, ‘Svedeniia dlia zhizneopisaniia Kniagini Ekateriny Romanovny Dashkovoi’, appendix to S. R. Dolgova, ‘E.R. Dashkova i sem’ia Malinovskikh’, in Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: Issledovaniia i materialy (SPb, 1996), 78.

22. Russian Journals, 206, Catherine to her sister, Alicia, 2 Dec. 1805.

23. K[niaginia] D[ashkova] and A. K., Podlinnye Anekdoty Imperatritsy Ekateriny Velikoi Premudroi Materi Otechestva (M, 1806), iii.

24. V. Iu. Afiani, ‘Stanovlenie zhurnal’noi arkheografii v Rossii v pervoi treti XIX v.’, Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1989 god (M, 1990), 30.

25. Zapiski kasatel’no Rossiiskoi Istorii: Sochineniia Gosudaryni Imperatritsy Ekateriny II, 6 parts (SPb, 1801); Filosoficheskaia i politicheskaia perepiska Imperatritsy s Doktorom Tsimermannom etc. (SPb, 1801); Ermitazhnyi Teatr Velikiia Ekateriny etc. etc. (M, 1802); Perepiska Rossiiskoi Imperatritsy Ekateriny II s gospodiny Vol’tera etc., 2 parts (M, 1803).

26. [N.M. Karamzin], Pokhval’noe slovo Ekaterine Vtoroi (M, 1802).

27. P. Kolotov, Deianiia Ekateriny, Imperatritsy i Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia, 6 parts (SPb, 1811).

28. I. S[reznevskii], Dukh Ekateriny Velikiia etc. etc. (SPb, 1814), foreword, n.p.

29. Russian Journals, 386, 388, Martha’s Journal, 7 Oct. 1808.

30. F. F. Vigel, Zapiski, ed. S. Ia. Straikh, 2 vols. (M, 1928), i: 100.

31. P. Sumarokov, Progulka po 12-ti guberniiam s istoricheskimi i statisticheskimi zamecheniiami v 1838 godu (SPb, 1839), 202.

32. D. Davydov, Voennye zapiski, ed. V. Orlov (M, 1940), 415; idem, Sochineniia (M, 1985), 129.

33. A. I. Gertsen, Sobranie sochinenii, 30 vols. (M, 1954–65), vii: 53; A. Herzen, My past and thoughts, trans. C. Garnett, 4 vols. (London, 1968), ii: 531.

34. 1857–1861: Perepiska Imperatora Aleksandra II s Velikim Kniazem Konstantinom Nikolaevichem; Dnevnik Velikago Kniazia Konstantina Nikolaevicha, eds. L. G. Zakharova and L. I. Tiutiunnik (M, 1994), 212, diary, 13 Dec. 1859.

35. Herzen, My past and thoughts, ii: 448.

36. A. P. Kern, Vospominaniia, dnevniki, perepiska (M, 1989), 115;