Catherine the Great

exercise of power in early-modern Europe 31–2, 75–9

cultural rivalry between monarchs 32

French kings’ daily life 33

Austrian emperors’ comparative seclusion 33

in C’s Instruction 172

pure monarchy 277

Monastery of Miracles, Moscow 170–71

Monastery of the Caves, Kiev 54, 284–5

monastic lands 52, 131, 153–4

Monomakh, Vladimir 18

Monplaisir, Peterhof 69, 83, 113, 140, 197–8

Monsieur Tom (a favourite greyhound) 266

Montaigne, Michel 68

Montenegro 196

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de 93, 172, 182, 198, 277, 283, 325

On the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Roman Republic 67

On the Spirit of the Laws 67, 101, 157, 225–6

Montgolfier balloon (Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier) 268

Mordvins 168

Morkov, Arkady 308, 315

Moscow

described 6–7

C’s triumphal entry into (1762) 6, 7, 11

C’s dislike for 11, 159

Marian imagery in 17

Plague of 1 771 206, 215

C’s 1775 visit 237–8

C’s 1785 visit 272–6, 281

fall of (1812) 326

Moscow Armoury 150

Moscow Foundling Home 129–30, 140, 155, 208, 212, 281

Moscow River 212

Moscow Telegraph 327

Moscow University 7, 160, 232

Mounsey, Dr James 113

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 234, 254

Mstislav Vladimirovich 282

Mstislavl 282

Munich: Elector of Bavaria’s palace 76

Munnich, Field Marshal 123

Muravev-Apostol, Ivan 326

Murillo, Bartolome Esteban 304

Rest on the Flight to Egypt 194

Musorgsky, Modest 161

Myatleva, Praskovia (nee Saltykova) 322

Mytishchi 273

N

Naples 6, 196, 254

Napoleon Bonaparte 326

Narva 40

Naryshkin, Alexander 127, 245, 321

Naryshkin, Dimitry 211

Naryshkin, Lev 14, 127, 142, 179, 193, 197, 210, 215, 221, 225, 245, 268, 272, 279, 280, 287, 314

C on 143–4

Naryshkin, Peter 14

Naryshkin, Semen

guides C into the Russian empire 39, 40

a future Marshal of Elizabeth’s Court 39

C’s wedding 59

Temple of Diana at Tsarskoye Selo 205

Naryshkin family 14

Naryshkina, Anna 291

Naryshkina, Katerina 210

Naryshkina, Natalia 210

Naryshkina, Yelena 18–19, 118

Nassau, Princess of 220

Natalia Alekseyevna, Grand Duchess (previously Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Darmstadt) 220, 221–2, 233, 236, 238–9, 244, 245

Nechaev, Innokenty, bishop of Pskov 222, 292

Necker, Jacques: Compte rendu 277

Necker, Suzanne 225

Neelov, Vasily 210

Nelidinsky, M. 260

Neplyuev, Ivan 7

Nerchinsk 217

Neva River 62, 205, 225, 244, 257–8, 275, 282–3, 305

Nevsky, St Alexander 58, 149, 165, 216, 246, 247, 294

New Chrysomander (Masonic text) 277 ‘New Jerusalem’ Ascension monastery 79

New Maiden Convent, Kiev 284

New Russia 154, 284, 307

New Style (Gregorian) calendar viii Newberry, Thomas 148

Nicholas, St 152

Nicholas I, Tsar 262, 313, 326–8, 329

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 8

Nikolay Mikhailovich, Grand Duke 331

Nikolsky Gate, Moscow 7

Nikon, Patriarch 79, 165

Nizhny Novgorod 159, 165, 166, 167, 197, 312

nobility

compulsory state service 118

emancipated from state service 118–19, 121, 133, 271

C’s Charter to the Nobility (1785) 119, 271, 320

flight to their estates during Plague of 1 771 206

Poland’s ‘republic of nobles’ 301