Catherine the Great

Berch, Carl Reinhold 42

Berda 228, 235

Berezovsky, Maxim 150

Berlin 29, 37, 231, 245, 254

Court of 25, 30, 204

Bestuzhev-Ryumin, Count Aleksey

Petrovich 14, 35, 50, 56, 66, 79, 97, 99–100, 102, 105, 109, 113, 115, 132, 133, 140, 185

Betskoy, Ivan 129, 132, 140, 155, 179, 208, 245, 256, 257, 262–3, 333, 334

General Plan for the Education of Young People of Both Sexes 130

Bezborodko, Alexander 184–5, 250, 251, 253, 254, 268, 270, 277, 281, 290, 298, 311, 320, 333

Bibikov, Alexander 161, 164, 171, 229, 230, 232, 233, 236, 325

Bielfeld, Jakob Friedrich, Freiherr von 162

Political Instruction 112

Bielke, Frau Johanna 204, 208, 210, 211, 218, 229, 230, 238, 244

Bilbasov, Vasily 1–2, 331

Bismarck, Prince Otto von 332

Blackstone, William 286, 325

Blanning, Tim 32, 75–6

Blessing of the Waters at Epiphany 115, 149–50

Blok, Alexander 331

Blondel, Jean 136

Board of Public Welfare 240

Bobrinsky, Aleksey Grigoryevich (C’s illegitimate son) 6, 120, 265, 285, 287, 331

Boerhaave, Abraham 49, 99

Boerhaave, Herman 49

Bolotov, Andrey 239

Bonecchi, Giuseppe 62, 77

Book on the Duties of a Man and Citizen, The 248

Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia 15

Borovichy 274

Boswell, James: Corsica 196, 199

Bourbon kings 31

Brandenburg-Prussia 24

Brandt, Johann 81

Branicka, Countess Alexandra (nee Engelhardt) 255, 284, 311, 322

Branicki, Count 255

Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de 67

Bratovshchina 85, 170

Bratslav 290

Brenna, Vincenzo 320

Breteuil, Louis-Auguste de Tonnelier, baron de 20

Britain

and War of American Independence (1775–83) 263

Anglo-Russian relations at an all-time low 298

Brompton, Richard 249

Bronnaya crown estate 129, 197

Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 94

Bruce, Count 204, 268, 272, 276–7, 285

Bruce, Countess Praskovya 118, 144–5, 197, 233, 255

Buckinghamshire on 144

C’s trusted friend 144–5

banished from Court (1779) 144

Bruhl, Count Heinrich von 193

Brummer, Grand Marshal 36

Brunswick, dukes of 30

Brunswick-Luneburg, Elisabeth Sophie Marie, Dowager Duchess of 29

Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Juliana Maria, Duchess of, Queen of Denmark 37

Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Lower Saxony, Court of 29, 30, 65

Buch, Iver 312

Buchanan, Sir George 332

Buckinghamshire, John, 2nd earl 7, 10, 22, 126–7, 144

Buhren, Ernst 72, 230

Bulgarians 174

Burney, Dr Charles 177

Busch, Johann (John Bush) 210

Butler, Martin 9

Buturlin, Count Peter 142

Buturlin, Field Marshal 114

Byron, George Gordon, Lord: Don Juan 296

Byzantine calendar 17

Byzantine empire 250

Byzantium 206

C

Cadet Corps 128, 148, 205, 265, 327

Cagliostro, Count (Giuseppe Balsamo) 276

Calas family 153

Cameron, Charles 210, 258–9, 320

Canitz, Julius von 168

Cardel, Elisabeth (Babet) 26, 27, 28, 34

Cardel, Magdalena 26

Caroline, Landgravine 220, 221

Catharinaea sublimis 333

Cathcart, Lord 138, 179, 181–2, 192, 196, 200–201, 208, 219, 241

Cathedral of St Isaac, St Petersburg 179, 180–81

Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow 5, 20, 213

Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, Moscow 5, 20, 213, 277

Cathedral of the Dormition, Kiev 54

Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow 4, 5, 7, 9, 13–17, 52, 160, 171, 183, 213, 237, 273, 288

Cathedral of the Dormition, Smolensk 282

Cathedral of the Dormition, Vladimir 15

Cathedral Square, Moscow 8, 9, 10, 14, 20

Catherine I, Empress of Russia 5, 52, 62, 77, 143, 179

Catherine II the Great, Empress of Russia

birth (21 April 1729; as Princess Sophie Auguste Friderike of Anhalt-Zerbst) 4, 23, 333

appearance 10, 27, 49, 58, 180, 302, 314, 332