Catherine the Great

General Survey 175

generalitet 57, 58, 59, 78, 147, 315

Geoffrin, Madame 93, 132, 139, 153, 155, 157, 223, 225

George II, King 109

George III, King 270, 298, 311

German Courts 31, 33, 71

Gillray, James 297

Giorgione: Judith 193

Girey, Khan Shagin 263

Glasse, Hannah: The Art of Cookery 78

Glebov, Alexander 115, 133

Godunov, Boris 161

Goebbels, Joseph 332

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 31

Golitsyn, Field Marshal A.M. 65, 197, 198, 266

Golitsyn, Prince Alexander 124, 171, 233

Golitsyn, Prince Dimitry 181, 193

Golitsyna, Princess 118

Golitsyn family 214

Golombiyevsky, Alexander 331

Golovin, Fedor 191

Golovin Palace, Moscow 53, 54, 68, 88–9, 159, 160, 169, 170, 174, 176, 213

Golovina, Countess Varvara 315, 317, 318, 326

Gomm, William 166

Gorchakov, Prince A. M. 329

Gorodets 166

Gostilitsy 45, 82, 84, 88

Gostiny dvor, St Petersburg 128

Gotzkowsky, Johann Ernest 193, 194

Gould, William 300, 305, 314

Great Instruction (Bolshoy Nakaz) 67, 101, 156–7, 171–5, 182, 199, 266, 324, 325

Great Northern War (1700–21) 9, 25, 40

Grech, Nikolay 324

Greek project 206, 250, 263

Greeks, ancient 250

Greig, Admiral Samuel 202, 287, 290

Gretry, Andre: The Marriage of the Samnites 288

Greuze, Jean-Baptiste: The Paralytic, or the Fruits of a Good Education 193, 260

Gribovsky, Adrian 311

Grigoryev, Apollon 323

Grimm, Baron Melchior 26, 28, 176, 193, 194, 221, 230, 233, 261

correspondence with C see under Catherine II the Great

edits the Correspondance litteraire 222

a member of d’Holbach’s circle 222

matchmaker for Paul and Natalia 223

C’s repeated offers of jobs 223

C’s artistic purchases 262, 285

Gross Jagersdorf, battle of (1757) 105, 184

Grotius, Hugo 68

Grot, Academician 330

Gunning, Sir Robert 216, 217, 218, 222, 230, 232–3, 237–8

Gustav III, King of Sweden 217, 218, 247–8, 253, 265, 290, 293–4, 298, 308, 314

Gustav IV, King of Sweden 314

Guy Dickens, Colonel 99

Gyllenborg, Count Henning Adolf 67, 306

H

Habsburg family 33, 186

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople 250

Halle 51

Hals, Frans: Young Man Holding a Glove 193

Hamburg 28, 39, 92, 306

Hanbury-Williams, Sir Charles 18, 93, 96, 98, 100, 102, 103, 105, 143, 185, 332

Hanbury-Williams, Major General Sir John 332, 333

Handel, George Frideric: Scipio 62

Hanover, Elector of 142

Hard, Count Johann 3, 117–18

Hardouin Perefixe de Beaumont, Paul Philippe 67

Hare Island, St Petersburg 41

Harris, Elizabeth 234

Harris, James 243, 246, 250, 253, 257, 266

Harris, James, senior: Hermes 250

hawking 69, 70, 133, 170

Helen (Alexander’s Greek nurse) 249

Hellfire Club 84, 93

Hendrikov, Count Andrey 60, 111

Hendrikov family 70

Henri IV, King of France 67, 302

Henry, Prince, of Prussia 34, 204–7, 212, 245

Herder, Johann Gottfried 32, 201

Hermitage, St Petersburg Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg 192–3

Hermitage Theatre 278, 280, 295, 297

Large Hermitage 260–61, 295

Small Hermitage 191–2, 230, 232, 236, 255, 256, 257, 260, 261, 269, 298, 302, 312, 334

Herrera, M. de la 257

Herzen, Alexander 322, 323, 329

Hesse-Darmstadt, Amalia of 220, 221

Hesse-Darmstadt, Louisa of 220

Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince Ludwig of 222, 245

Hesse-Homburg, Field Marshal the Prince of 47

Hesse-Homburg, Princess of (nee Anna Trubetskaya) 92

Hitler, Adolf 332

Hofburg, Vienna 33

Hogland island 290