Catherine the Great

and Paul’s early years 92

aversion to business 99

health 99–100, 105–9, 111, 113, 114

death 114

funeral 115–18

parallels shown between her and C 13

Encyclopedie 136, 153, 160, 199, 222, 261, 286

Engelhardt, Lev Nikolayevich 282

Enlightenment 67, 68, 165

C as a celebrated patron 28

an important influence on C’s legislation 153

and C’s Instruction 172, 173, 199–200

and Grimm 224, 225

C aims to nurture rational children of the Enlightenment 248

C’s Enlightened policies and the nobility 271

suspicion of C’s fascination with the French Enlightenment 325–6

fundamental belief in self-development 335

equity courts 255

Erasmus, Desiderius 71

Esterhazy, Count 98

Esterhazy, Count Valentin 302, 303

Estland 9, 40

Euler, Leonhard 264

Eutin 35, 36, 64

F

Falconet, Etienne-Maurice 160, 176, 181, 190, 194, 204, 209, 218, 225, 257

Farnese, Elizabeth 37

Fauchier-Magnan, Adrien 30, 31

Fedorov monastery, Gorodets 165

Felbiger, Abbot Johann Ignaz von 248, 252

Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe: Adventures of Telemaque 141

Feofan, Bishop see Charnutsky Feofil, Bishop 282

Ferdinand, Prince 30

Fermor, Count Villem 158–9, 160

Ferney 206, 261

Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews 199

Filaret, Patriarch 164

Finland 300

Russian 9

Finno-Ugric people 167

Fioravanti, Aristotele 5, 15

Fitzherbert, Alleyne 272, 282, 283

Florence 254

Fokshany peace negotiations, 210, 215, 217

Fonvizin, Denis 324

Fox, Charles James 298–9

France

stranglehold on European diplomacy 24–5

and War of American Independence (1775–83) 263

commercial treaty with Russia (1787) 298

Russia joins the anti-French coalition (1798) 301–2

pornographic journalism 307

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 18

Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg 25

Frederick II, King of Prussia (Frederick the Great) 24, 36, 68, 105, 153, 157, 184, 188, 320

marriage to Elisabeth Christine 30

promotes C’s father 35

dislike of the Court 37

Enlightened administration 38

Bestuzhev affair 50

pleased at C’s engagement 53

and Peter III’s plans to attack the Danes 120

preoccupied by internal reconstruction 186

and Poniatowski’s election as king of Poland 186, 187

financial embarrassments of the Seven Years’ War 194

and the Russo-Turkish War 204

aims to take Polish territories 207

on the Orlovs 216–17

and Paul’s potential bride 220

philosophes disillusioned with 225

Paul’s audience with him 245

Frederick William I, King of Prussia 23, 25, 37, 38, 83

Frederick William II, King of Prussia 253, 298

Free Economic Society 145, 154

Freemasonry 132, 276, 277, 308

French Revolution (1789–99) 291, 299, 301

Friedel, Johann Friedrich 33

Fronde, the 12

G

Gabrielli, Caterina 234–5

Gagarina, Princess Anna 82, 86

Gaignat, Louis-Jean 194

Galiani, abbe 194–5, 252

Galicia 250

Galuppi, Baldasare

Dido Abandoned 147

Iphigenia in Tauride 177

Gardi (celebrated black stallion) 170

Gatchina 178, 189, 197, 210, 216, 220, 306, 315, 317

Gavriil, Metropolitan see Petrov, Metropolitan Gavriil Gellert, C.F.: Die Betschwester 200