Catherine the Great

death (1747) 66

Anhalt-Zerbst, Elisabeth, Princess of (C’s sister) 26

Anhalt-Zerbst, Friedrich August, Prince of (C’s brother) 26, 33

Anhalt-Zerbst, Johanna Elisabeth, Princess of (nee Holstein-Gottorp; C’s mother) 44–5, 46, 88, 105

marries Christian August (1727) 29

birth of C 23

her other children 26

visits her relatives 28–9, 30

match-making for C 34–5

travels with C to Russia 39–40

meets Empress Elizabeth 47

behaviour during C’s illness 49, 50

Bestuzhev affair 50

C’s baptism 52

first serious argument with Grand Duke Peter 53

birthday 54

status-consciousness 55

C’s wedding 56, 58, 59, 61–2

leaves the Russian Court 64

death (1760) 107

Anhalt-Zerbst, Sophie Auguste

Friderike, Princess of see Catherine

II the Great, Empress of Russia

Anhalt-Zerbst, Wilhelm Christian Friedrich, Prince of (C’s brother) 26, 27

Anichkov Palace, St Petersburg 128, 149, 242

Anna, Empress of Russia 3, 8, 14, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 55, 56, 66, 69, 71–5, 78, 81, 115, 123, 149, 230, 295

Anna Petrovna, Grand Duchess (C’s illegitimate daughter) 104–5, 106

Anna Petrovna (sister of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia) see Holstein-Gottorp, Anna Petrovna, Duchess of Antropov, Aleksey 7

Apraksin, Admiral 55, 99–100, 102, 105–6

Aptekarsky Island 57

Araja, Francesco 104

Bellerofont 77

Mithridates 79

Scipio 62

architecture

a golden age of Baroque church-building 79

recurrent alterations to imperial palaces 81

disaster at Gostilitsy 82, 84

effects of the Russian climate 82–3

resurrection of the Golovin Palace 88–9

heyday of private building projects

in St Petersburg 95

C’s ambitions for urban reconstruction 211–14

Arseny, Metropolitan, of Rostov 52

Assebourg, Baron von 219, 220

Assemblies of the Land 159

Astrakhan 169

Augustus, Emperor 211

Augustus III, King of Poland 185, 186

Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony 31

Austria

diplomatic alliance with Russia (1726) 35

implacable enemy of Prussia 187

incorporation of the Polish enclave of Zips 207

education model 248

Russia’s need for a rapprochement with 250

formal alliance with Russia (1781) 253, 269, 290

Avdotino estate, near Moscow 308

Azov 239

B

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Brandenburg Concertos 32

Well-Tempered Clavier 32

Bachaumont, Louis Petit de: Memoires secrets 194

Bad Neuheim 331

Baden-Durlach, Louise, Princess of 313

Baedeker, Karl 25

Bakhchisaray 287

Balkan Slavs 196

Balta, sacking of (1768) 183

Baltic lands 9, 40, 217

Baroque style 59, 160, 179, 205, 259

Baryatinsky, Prince Fedor 124, 125, 315, 319

Bashkir tribal leaders 228

Bashkiria 228, 254

Basil the Great, St 17

Batyushkov, Konstantin 324, 326

Bauer, General 203, 220, 223, 258, 265, 273

Bayle, Pierre 68

Historical and Critical Dictionary 67, 310

Bazhenov, Vasily 212, 213, 214, 230, 239, 258, 276

Bearde de l’Abbaye, M. 154–5

Beaumarchais, Pierre 224

Beccaria, Cesare 182, 198, 223

On Crimes and Punishments 157, 199

Belaya Tserkov estate 322

Belorussia 270

Beloselsky, Prince Andrey 140, 141

Bender 204, 211

Bentham, Jeremy 156–7, 199, 261, 282

Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation 157

Bentham, Samuel 282, 286

Bentinck, Countess 34