Catherine the Great

Lestocq, Armand 47, 50, 61

Leventhal (Lev’s Valley) 210–11, 215, 257

Levshin, Alexander 273

Levshin, Metropolitan Platon 148, 151, 152, 180–81, 199–200, 221, 273, 277, 288, 320

Short Course in Christian Theology 221

Lieven, General 102

Life Company 70

Life Guards 102, 121

Ligne, Prince de 25, 253, 268

Liteyny cannon foundry, St Petersburg 197

Little Russia (Ukraine) 9

Littlepage, Lewis 284

Liuberets estate 89

Livland 9, 40

Livy 62

Lobkowitz, Prince 177

Lolli, Antonio 246

Lomonosov, Mikhailo 44, 77

‘Ode on the Accession of Catherine II’ 13

Lopukhin family 214

Lords Commissioners for Trade 9

Louis XIV, King of France 12, 17, 25, 31, 32, 147, 210

Louis XV, King of France 18, 69, 153, 188, 194

Louis XVI, King of France 68, 277, 288, 297, 301, 302, 308, 310

Luders, Dr 125

Ludwig, Prince, of Brunswick 30

Luke, St 150

Luther, Martin 29

Lutheranism 19, 51

Luzhkov, A.I. 261

Lvov, Prince Nikolay 273, 320

Lyalichi estate 243

Lynar, Count 101

Lyon, France 268

M

Macartney, Sir George 143, 145–6, 153, 184, 187

Madariaga, Isabel de 264, 301

Madrid, Court of 261

Maggiotto, Domenico: Urania teaching a youth 241

Maikov, Vasily 140, 169

Maintenon, Madame de 31

Makaryev monastery 161

Makhaev, Mikhailo 44

Makulov, Prince 213

Manfredini, Vincenzo Apollo and Minerva 147

Carlo Magno [Charlemagne] 146

Mann, Sir Horace 91

Manstein (Austrian ambassador) 71, 72

Manteufel, Count 30

Marble Palace 179, 216, 313

Mardefeld, Baron 52

Maria Fedorovna, Grand Duchess

(Princess Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg) 268, 281

health 220

becomes Paul’s dutiful second consort 244–5

on Paul’s Grand Tour 254

birthday 295

births 313

and C’s lying-in-state 318

Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Consort of Joseph II 169

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria 18, 99, 191, 207, 219, 253

Maria Theresa, Infanta 57

Markov, Alexander 191

Marmontel, Jean-Francois: Belisaire 162–3

Mary, Blessed Virgin, the female Russian monarchs associated with 17

Marian imagery prominent in Moscow 17

Mass, Michelangelo 81

Masson, Charles: Secret Memoirs of Russia 314

Matveyev, Artamon 13

Maundy Thursday 100, 149, 160

Maupeou, Chancellor 226

Medal Committees 210

Melissino, Colonel 128, 295

Memel, East Prussia 105

Menelaws, Adam 274

Mengs, Anton Raphael: Perseus and Andromeda 261, 262

Menshikov, Alexander 83, 84

Menshikov Palace, Lefortovo 46, 213, 214

Messenger of Europe (journal) 323

Mikeshin, M.O. 330

Mikhail Fedorovich, Tsar of Russia 62, 137, 164

Mikhailovsky Palace, St Petersburg 57, 320

Mikhelson, General 235, 236

Minetti, Francesco 33

Mirabeau, Honore Riqueti, comte de 310

Miranda, Francisco de 284

Mirovich, guardsman 155 ‘Mirror of the Police, The’ 255

Misere (a Piedmontese) 111

Mislavsky, Samuil 213

Mogilev, Belorussia 250–53, 264, 333

Moldavia 203, 229, 235

Moliere 200

Georges Dandin 203, 255

monarchy

intensely personal in Russia 20