Catherine the Great

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Sachsen-Coburg, Princess Juliana Henrietta of 313

St Basil’s Cathedral (Cathedral of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God), Moscow 17

Saint Catherine (yacht) 179

Saint Evstafy (ship) 202

St Martin St Nicholas (Naval) Cathedral, St Petersburg 79

St Petersburg 82, 322

origins 41

geometrically regimented 7

granite embankments 258

as Residenzstadt 41–2

fires (1736 and 1737) 43–4

C’s ceremonial re-entry into 127–8

great flood 257–8

St Petersburg (Dutch vessel) 57

St Petersburg News 57, 69, 77, 78

St Petersburg Public Library 330

St Sophia Cathedral, Tsarskoye Selo 250

Saint-Germain, Treaty of (1679) 25

Saldern, Caspar von 189, 219, 230

Saltykov, Count Nikolay 295, 303, 307

Saltykov, Field Marshal Peter 14, 160, 204, 206, 208, 212, 213

Saltykov, Sergey 87, 92, 178, 190, 197, 328

Saltykov family 14

Salzdahlum, Lower Saxony 29

Samoiedes 174

Sanches, Antonio 49

Santi, Count 56–7, 58, 59, 60

Saratov 227, 236

Sarti, Giuseppe: Te Deum 294

Saxe-Gotha, Duke of 223

Saxe-Gotha, Princess Louise of 220

Saxe-Gotha, Prince William of 34

Schaden, Professor Johann: ‘On the Spirit of the Laws’ 160

Schilling, Dr 113

Schleswig 120

Schlusselburg fortress, near St Petersburg 12, 124, 308

Schonbrunn, Vienna 191

Schonhausen palace, Berlin 37

Schroeder, Paul 301

Schumacher, Andreas 124–5

Schutze, Johann Christoph 33, 34

Schwedt an der Oder 37

Sechenov, Archbishop Dimitry 14, 19, 123, 151, 160, 166, 171, 176, 178

Secret Chancellery 90

Segur, Count 272, 274, 283, 287

Seleucco (Pasquini) 79

Seltsa estate 220

Semenovsky Guards 44, 54, 123, 208, 255

Senate, the 9, 14, 95, 121, 133, 175, 190, 230, 271, 324

Senate Building, St Petersburg 97

Senate Palace, Moscow 16

Sennoye 251

Senyavin, Admiral 208

Serafim of Sarov, St 8

Serbia 248

serfdom 129, 154, 163, 172–3, 175, 271, 272, 277, 290, 292, 310, 320

Sevastopol 287, 289

Seven Years’ War (1756–63) 14, 103, 105, 106, 119, 128, 157, 159, 184, 186, 187, 194, 195

Sevres 262

Shafirov family 111

Shakespeare, William 93

Julius Caesar 310

Shakhovskoy, Yakov 116, 133

Shcherbatov, Prince Mikhail 95–6, 118–19, 143, 333

Shcherbatova, Princess Darya 190, 290

Shcherbatsky, Metropolitan Timofey 7, 14

Shepelev, Ober-hofmeister 92

Sheremetev, Count Nikolay 288

Sheremetev, Count Peter 5, 60, 117, 127, 139

Sheremetev Palace, St Petersburg 140

Sheremeteva, Countess Anna 177, 178

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 298

Sheshkovsky, prosecutor 308

Shirley, Henry 173–4

Shishkova, Alexandra 323

Shklov 251

Shubin, Fedor 305, 312

Shuvalov, General Alexander 90, 92

Shuvalov, Count Andrey 162, 176, 182, 195, 311

Shuvalov, Ivan 91, 94, 95, 97, 109, 113, 115, 168, 193, 307, 314, 315

Shuvalov, Peter 62, 96, 110, 113, 115, 157

Shuvalov family 102, 105, 106, 114, 119

Siberia 256, 292

Siegen, Prince Nassau 293

Sievers, Count Karl 21, 135, 146–7, 220, 234

Sievers, Yakov 93, 140, 229, 240, 273

Silistria 229, 235

Simbirsk 169

Simferopol 287

Simonetti, Giovanni 33

Skavronska, Countess Catherine (nee Engelhardt) 255

Skavronsky, Count 255

Skavronsky, Counts 143

Skavronsky family 70

Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy, Moscow 7

Slizov, Konstantin 3–4, 239

smallpox 23–4