Catherine the Great

Titian: Danae 193

Todorsky, Archimandrite Simon 51, 60

Tooke, William 123, 299–300

Torre, M. de la 257

Torzhok 272, 273

monastery of Boris and Gleb 273–4

Transfiguration, Cathedral of the, St Petersburg 45

Treasury (British) 98

Treasury (Russian) 308

Trezzini, Domenico 42, 151

Trinity Cathedral, St Petersburg 246–7, 294, 315

Trinity Lavra 79, 170

Trinity St Sergius monastery 49, 51, 67, 85, 124, 150–51, 239 ‘Triumphant Minerva’ (street pageant) 22

Tronchin, Francois 193

Troppau, capture of (1758) 114

Troshchinsky, Dimitry 311

Trubetskaya, Princess Yevdokiya 190, 230

Trubetskoy, Prince Nikita 116, 121

C’s wedding 62

and C’s coronation 7, 8, 9, 13, 21

Trubetskoy family 14

Tsar Boris’s Ponds 127, 170

Tsaritsyn 236

Tsaritsyno 276, 326

Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg 15, 46, 55, 69, 72, 76, 79, 82, 95, 100, 108, 109, 126, 137, 177, 178, 189, 192, 193, 197, 205, 209, 210, 215, 216, 219, 220, 223, 229, 230, 233–4, 243, 249, 250, 258, 261, 264, 266, 267, 268, 274, 278, 281, 289, 293, 304, 305, 312, 314, 322, 323

Picture Gallery 220

redesign of (Charles Cameron) 258–9

Lyon room 259

Chinese room 259

Arabesque room 259, 294

C’s study 259

bronze doors for C’s bedroom 262–3

Cameron Gallery 299

C’s library 306

Tula 288

Turchaninov, Peter 312

Turgenev, Alexander 325, 328

Turgenev, Nikolay 325

Turin: royal library 142

Turkish navy 202–3

Tuscany 254

Tver 158, 159, 160, 162, 166, 273, 322

Tver (C’s galley) 161, 162, 164

Tver province 240, 275

U

Ufa 230

Uglich 161

Ukhtomsky, F.F. 150

Ukraine see Little Russia Ulrich, Duke Anton 29

Ural mountains 228, 233, 235

urban government 271

Utkin, Nikolay: Lady with a dog 323

V

Valeriani, Giuseppe 76, 141

Vallin de la Mothe, Jean Baptiste 136–7, 138, 191

Vanbrugh, Sir John 138–9

Varel, Oldenbourg 34

Varennes 301

Vasilchikov, Alexander 230

C’s new favourite 216, 217

no substitute for Grigory Orlov 218

C’s boredom with him 225, 232

supplanted by Grigory Potemkin 229, 232

Vasilevsky Island, St Petersburg 44, 211

Vechelde, palace of, near Brunswick 29

Veilly, Jean-Louis de 15, 21

Veldten, Georg 137, 138, 191, 258

Vele 265, 278

Venice 254

Venturi, Franco 196

Verdi, Giuseppe: Un ballo in maschera 308

Verela 294

Vernet, Pastor Jacob 141

Versailles 29–33, 57, 76, 94, 147, 193, 288

Vicenza 279

Vienna 207, 254, 262, 270

Imperial Court 33

Virgil: Aeneid 294

Virgin of Kazan 60

Vladimir, Prince 54

Vladimir, St 285

Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke 332

Vladislavova, Praskovya 13, 99

Voice, The (newspaper) 331

Volga River 155, 158–61, 163, 166, 168

Volkonsky, Prince 213

Volkov, Dimitry 99, 118–19, 134, 162, 171

Volkov, Fedor 22

Voltaire 67, 68, 93, 109, 152, 222, 224, 239, 295, 310