Catherine the Great

inoculation 188–90, 247–8, 262, 284

Smolensk 240, 278, 281–2

Smolny Cathedral, St Petersburg 79

Smolny Convent 99, 205

Smolny Institute 130, 178, 303

Society for the Education of Young Noblewomen 130

Society for the Translation of Foreign Books 199, 261

Sofia, near Tsarskoye Selo 250, 265, 278, 314

Sollogub, Countess Natalia 284

Solms, Count 126, 195, 207, 216

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 171–2

Somov, Konstantin 331

Sophia, Tsarevna 12, 13

Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg see Maria Fedorovna, Grand Duchess Sorbonne, Paris 188, 190

Soubise, Cardinal de 142

Spanish Succession, War of the (1701–14) 25

Sparrow, Charles 210

Spectator, The 198

Speransky, Mikhail 325

Spiridov, Admiral 202

Sreznevsky, Ivan 322

Stable Chancellery, Moscow 59

Stahlin, Jacob 64, 77, 111, 115, 117, 128, 136

Stalin, Joseph 171–2

Stanislaw August Poniatowski, King of Poland see Poniatowski Starov, Ivan 246–7, 275, 294, 305

State Duma 331

Stedingk, Baron 294–9

Steele, Richard 198

Steen, Jan: Revellers 193

Stephen the Little 196

Sterne, Laurence: Sentimental Journey

292

Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) 23, 24, 25, 28, 32, 333

Stockholm, Court of 92

Stockholm, Peace of (1720) 25

Stone Island 140

Stowe, Buckinghamshire 94

Stroganov, Alexander 140, 141–2, 160, 171, 172, 178, 193, 250, 251, 256, 261, 302, 321

Stroganov, Baron Sergey 95

Stroganov Palace 115, 141

Stroganova, Countess 143, 177

Sudermania, duke of 314

Sukhodolsky, Vasily: Astronomy 110

Sumarokov, Alexander 22, 51, 122, 327

Ode to Potemkin 237

‘On the First Day of 1763’ 17

Sinav and Truvor 110, 146

Sumarokov, Peter 14, 322

Summer Annenhof, Moscow 51

Summer Garden, St Petersburg 36, 128, 256, 258

Summer House, St Petersburg 81–2, 83

Summer Palace, Moscow (1730) 47

Summer Palace, St Petersburg (1741–4) 55, 57, 61, 68, 78, 83, 113, 128, 145, 149, 180, 236, 258, 295, 320

Sutherland, Richard 307–8

Suvorov, Field Marshal 235, 291, 296, 299, 300, 303, 309, 311, 322, 333

Svenskund 293

Svinin, Pavel 328

Sweden

Great Northern War 9, 288

as the dominant Baltic power in the seventeenth century 24

spoils of the Thirty Years’ War 24

Russia celebrates peace with (1744) 65

suspension of the 1720 constitution 217

restoration of the monarchy’s absolute powers 217

and Nevsky 246

Swedish fleet 290, 293

Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels 199

Synodal Palace, Moscow 9

T

Tacitus: Annals 101

Taininskoye 151, 160

Talyzin, Admiral Ivan 14, 124

Tamerlane 237

Tames, John 9

Tatars 17, 167, 168, 174, 246

Tatishchevo 233

Tauride Palace, St Petersburg 46, 299–300, 304, 305–6, 311

Gobelins Room 299

Winter Garden 300, 305

converted into stables 320

Tauride province 263–4, 280

Teplov, Grigory 9, 125, 130, 132, 212

supervision of Kiriil Razumovsky’s education 131

translates Araja libretti 131

drafts C’s early edicts 131

Commission on Church Lands 131

Imperial Assembly secretary 133

‘theatres of piety’ 54

Theodore I, king of Corsica 93

Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) 24

Three Bishops (ship) 202 ‘thunder-rock’ 204–5 Times, The 166, 289