and the Imperial theatres 148
Yenikale 239
Yermolov, Lieutenant Alexander 272, 274
relationship with C 270–71
the ‘white negro’ 270
rapid downfall 270
inveigled into an intrigue against Potemkin 270
dismissed and sent abroad 270
extended ‘retirement’ 270
Yeropkin, Senator Peter 44, 206–7, 208
Yevreinov, Timofey 66, 99
Yorke, Charles 93
Young Court 65, 66, 69–70, 79, 90, 105, 133, 140, 141, 143, 178, 219, 222, 303
Yusupov, Nikolay 321
Zagryazhskaya, Natalia 328
Zaporozhian Cossacks 9, 238
Zatrapezny, Ivan 163
Zavadovsky, Peter 270, 278, 281, 282–3, 290, 324
relationship with C 28, 241, 242–3
promoted to major general 242
temporary retirement to Lyalichi 243
long career at Court 243
Commission of National Schools 248
and the Russo-Swedish War 293
and the second Russo-Turkish War 294
and Poland’s third partition 309–10
Zemtsov, Mikhail 44, 60
Zerbst, family seat at 24, 28, 33–6, 66, 106
Zherebstova, Olga 322–3
Zhurzha (now Giurgiu, Romania) 208
Zimmerman, Dr Johann 277, 280, 283, 321
271
Zips (Spisz) 207
Znamenskoye 127
Zorich, Semen 243, 251–2
Zorin, Andrey 297
Zorndorf, battle of (1758) 112
Zosima, Abbot 165
Zubov, Count Nikolay 315
Zubov, Platon 291, 294, 295, 300, 301, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 316, 322
Zubov, Valerian 296
Zwinger complex, Dresden 33
About the Author
SIMON DIXON is professor of modern history and chairman of the School of History at the University of Leeds in England. He specializes in the history of imperial Russia, with particular focus on the eighteenth century and the Russian Orthodox Church. He is regularly invited to lecture on Russian culture to general audiences around the world and in the United States.
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