Catherine the Great

headquarters at Kremenchug 286

re-enactment of Peter the Great’s victory over the Swedes (1709) 287–8

hypochondria 288–9

his Polish estates 290, 309

and Radishchev’s book 292

and the second Russo-Turkish War 288–9, 291, 294, 296, 297, 303

and Tauride Palace 46, 299, 331

reputation for corruption 301, 334

on Zubov 307

death 303–4, 309, 317

his estate 304–5

glassworks 311

Danilevsky’s claim 330 ‘Potemkin villages’ 286

Potocki, Ignacy 301

Potsdam 33, 37, 204, 217

Poussin, Nicolas 304

Praga, Warsaw 309

Prechistensky Palace, Moscow 214, 238

Prejudice Overcome (allegorical ballet) 191

Preobrazhensky Guards 44–5, 100, 123, 217, 305

Prokopovich, Feofan 131

Protasova, Anna 269, 274, 315

Protestantism 248, 312

Provincial Reform 239–40, 241, 250, 251, 254, 271, 273

Prozorovsky, Prince 308

Prussia

defensive alliance with Russia 187, 250

implacable enemy of Austria 187

Prussian army: 8th infantry regiment 25

Pruth, battle of the (1711) 77

Pskov 251, 265

publishing, independent 277, 310

Pugachev, Yemelyan 238, 239, 256, 328, 330

appearance 228

seizure of Iletsk 228

sets up ‘College of War’ at Berda 228

C makes light of his rebellion 229, 232

forced to abandon his headquarters 233

regroups in the Urals 233

final rally 235, 236

betrayed by the Cossacks 236

trial and execution 237, 308

Pulkovo 209, 234

Pushchin, Vice Admiral Peter Ivanovich 158, 274, 286

Pushkin, Alexander 161, 324, 328

History of Pugachev 327

‘Table-Talk’ 328

Q

Quarenghi, Giacomo 262–3, 265, 267, 278–9, 315

R

Radishchev, Alexander 292, 294, 300–301

Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow 272, 291–2

Raphael 304

Holy Family 193

loggias 245, 262, 278

Rastrelli, Francesco Bartolomeo 47, 69, 138, 150, 151, 158, 259, 295, 319

designs the stone Winter Palace 55

demolition of his Summer Palace 57, 320

and C’s wedding 60, 61

pyramid of fire device 78, 91

St Petersburg summer house 81–2

Golovin Palace resurrection 88

completes transformation of Peterhof 95

temporary leave from Russia 135

fails to be confirmed in the rank of major general 135–6

leaves Russia for good 136

Raynal, Guillaume: History of the Two Indies 292

Razumovsky, Aleksey 69, 76, 85, 95, 99–100, 113

a Ukrainian of Cossack extraction 14

Elizabeth’s lover 14

Elizabeth’s Grand Master of the Hunt 14, 48

Gostilitsy estate 45, 82

appearance 48

Kozelets estate 53

and C’s marriage 59, 60, 61

and C’s coronation 14, 19

and Yelagin 131

Razumovsky, Andrey 245

Razumovsky, Kirill 95, 99–100, 123, 133, 142, 190, 233, 239, 268, 328

Red Square, Moscow 6, 17

Red Staircase, Moscow 8, 9, 10, 13, 21, 52, 239

Reiffenstein, Johann Friedrich 261

Reims Cathedral 16

Rembrandt van Rijn 193

Abraham and Isaac 261

Return of the Prodigal Son 193

Repnin, Prince Nikolay 128, 186, 235, 269, 302–3, 311

Repnin, Princess 255

Reval 85, 155, 204, 218, 290, 293

Reynolds, Sir Joshua 225

Ribas, Admiral 333