correspondence with C
Huber’s cycle of portraits 193
bust commissioned by C 261
death 261
Vorobevo 80
Voronezh 278
Vorontsov, Count Alexander 89, 96, 107, 134, 268, 270, 282, 287, 290, 292
Vorontsov, Chancellor Count Mikhail 62, 73, 94, 96, 97, 106–7, 111, 114, 133, 142
Vorontsov, Count Roman Larionovich 119
Vorontsov, Count Semen 134, 182, 235, 270, 298
Vorontsov family 105, 106, 113, 114, 134, 281
Vorontsov Palace, St Petersburg 95, 295
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Katlovna 15, 18, 21, 74, 109–13, 118
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Mikhailovka 74, 109–13, 142–3
Vorontsova, Elizabeth 16, 92, 104, 110, 115, 124
Votiaks 168
Voulgaris, Eugenios 294, 304
Vyazemsky, Prince Alexander 134, 233, 237, 274, 285, 306, 308, 333
Vyazemsky, Prince Peter 327
Vyborg 293
Vyshny Volochek 272, 275
Wagner, Pastor Friedrich 26–7, 28
Wailly, Charles de 288
Wallachia 203, 229
Walpole, George, 3rd earl 261
Walpole, Horace 241, 261, 308–9
Walpole, Sir Robert 261
War of American Independence (1775–83) 263
Warsaw 219, 301, 309, 311
Washington, George 275
Watteau, Antoine 193, 304
Wedgwood, Josiah 261
Weimar Republic 33
Weitbrecht, Johann 310
Westminster Abbey, London 16
Whately, Thomas:
Whitworth, Charles 323
Wilkes, John 261
Wilmot, Catherine 321, 323
Wilmot, Martha 321, 322, 323
Winter Annenhof (later Golovin Palace), Moscow 47
Winter Palace, St Petersburg 45, 55–6, 58, 60, 66, 79, 278
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (stone) 95, 119–20, 121, 123, 130, 135, 136–9, 181, 189, 200, 221, 225, 265, 269, 280, 299, 302, 315
Amber Room 83, 231
Chevalier Gardes’ Room 132, 137, 318
Portrait Room 137
Diamond Room 138, 232, 315
Mirror Room 138
library 138
massive proportions 138
audience chamber 141
Orlov’s rooms above C’s 145
theatre 146
extravagant masquerade (1770) 205
Potemkin’s apartments 233
and Sophia’s reception in Russia 245
great flood of 1 777 258
Constantine’s apartments 313
St George’s Hall 315
and C’s death 316, 317–19
Grand Gallery 318
requiem service for Peter III 319
loss of interiors in great fire of 1 837 138
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (temporary wooden structure) 95, 112, 113, 115, 147
Wolff, Jacob 97–8 ‘World of Art’ group 331
Worlitz 32
Wortman, Richard 332
Wouvermans, Philip 193
Wraxall, Nathaniel 214, 235
Wurttemberg, Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of 31
Wurttemberg, Frederick, Prince of 281
Wurttemberg, Zelmira, Princess of (Princess Auguste of Brunswick) 281
Yaik Cossack host 228
Yakovlev, Savva 127, 163
Yakubovsky, Ivan 316
Yaroslavl 163–4, 165
Yauza River 10
Yekaterinburg, Siberia 209
Yekaterinburg fortress 84, 94
Yekaterinhof suburban palace 68, 82, 83, 234
Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) 280, 304, 311
Yekaterintal Palace, Reval 204
Yelagin, Ivan 130, 135, 165, 171, 178, 195, 234, 235, 333
a lifelong servant of C’s 131
arrested with Bestuzhev 132
connection with English Masonic lodges 132
