15 “all day and part of the night”:
16 “constantly smoked”: Ibid.
17 “I underwent agonies”: Herzen, 197
18 “I saw as clear as day”:
19 “He knew how to conceal his faults”: Ibid., 200
20 “Has he not committed”: Alexander, 63
29. RETALIATION
1 “I had a superb dress made”:
2 “I treated them with profound contempt”: Herzen, 198
3 “One day, His Imperial Highness”:
4 “he could have saved himself”: Herzen, 201
5 “he got nothing”:
6 “shuddered to think”: Herzen, 203
7 “Those accursed Germans”:
8 “a freakish prank”: Ibid., 236
9 “We have become the servants”: Ibid.
10 “as far away as I could”: Ibid
30. THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR
1 “It was not difficult to talk”:
2 “a stumbling block”: Ibid.
3 “nowhere are people quicker”: Ibid., 240
4 “The empress’s health”: Kaus, 138
5 “A man at my age”: Cronin, 105
6 “I have some hesitation”: Troyat, 87
7 “Whatever may be further given”: Kaus, 143
31. A DIPLOMATIC EARTHQUAKE
1 “I have heard with pleasure”: Kaus, 144–45
32. PONIATOWSKI
1 “An excellent education”: Haslip, 71
2 “A severe education”: Poniatowski, 157
3 “She was twenty-five”: Madariaga,
4 “I cannot deny myself the pleasure”: Oldenbourg, 178
33. A DEAD RAT
1 “You ought to go and see her”:
2 “The evening passed”: Ibid., 243
3 “Sometimes at the theater”: Ibid., 244,
4 “like a servant girl”: Haslip, 76
5 “Tell me how much you know”:
6 “there is no worse traitor”: Ibid., 249
7 “in the present critical and delicate”: Haslip, 82
8 “I pressed her strongly”: Anthony, 137
34. CATHERINE CHALLENGES BROCKDORFF
1 “They tell me he is suspected”:
2 “If such things are done: Ibid., 249
3 “Come to my apartment”: Ibid., 255.
4 “Speak to the grand duchess”: Ibid.
5
6 “He took money from everyone”: Ibid.
7 “Look at this devil of a fellow”: Ibid., 257
8 “The great problem lay in the fact”: Ibid., 258
9 “Well, you began very young”: Ibid., 259
10 “You seem to be well-informed”: Ibid., 264
11 “The weather was superb”: Ibid., 276
12 “The Grand Duchess is kindness”: Ibid., 277
13 “please the empress”: Kaus, 147
14 “The grand duke is as completely a Prussian”: Ibid., 148
15 “I love you as my father”: Cronin, 110
35. APRAKSIN’S RETREAT
1 “a very corpulent man”: Cronin, 109
2 “If the empress should die”:Haslip, 89
3 “And there now remains”: Kaus, 171
36. CATHERINE’S DAUGHTER
1 “I have no idea”:
2 “You fool! Go back”: Ibid.
3 “Go to the devil!”: Ibid.
4 “It is said that the public celebrations”: Ibid., 283
5 “only just awakened”: Ibid., 284
6 “You should not die of hunger”: Ibid.
7 “the grand duke’s musicians”: Ibid., 285
8 “except for Alexander Shuvalov”: Ibid.
37. THE FALL OF BESTUZHEV
1 “Count, I have just received a message”:
2 “Thank God, we are going to arrest”: Ibid., 287
3 “a loyal, honest man”: Ibid.
4 “With a dagger in my heart”: Ibid., 288
5 “What do all these wonderful things mean?”: Ibid.
6 “attempting to sow discord”: Ibid., 292
7 “You are a witness to the fact”: Ibid., 294
38. A GAMBLE
1 “in a fearful passion”:
2 “What will you say to her?”: Ibid.
3 “Today, my damned nephew”: Ibid., 299
4 “I felt myself possessed”: Ibid
5 “My natural pride”: Ibid., 300
6 “I have just said”: Ibid., 301
7 “We are all afraid”: Ibid., 302
39. CONFRONTATION
1 “Why do you wish me”:
2 “My children are in your hands”: Ibid.
3 “Your Imperial Majesty will tell them”: Ibid.
4 “God is my witness”: Ibid.
5 “You are dreadfully haughty”: Ibid., 306
6 “She is dreadfully spiteful”: Ibid.
7 “You meddle in many things”: Herzen, 288
8 “And why did you write”: Ibid., 289
9 “The grand duke showed much bitterness”: Ibid.
10 “I have many more things to say”: Ibid., 290
11 “He told me that the empress had spoken”: Ibid., 291
12 “I expect you to answer truthfully”: Ibid., 296
40. A MÉNAGE À QUATRE
1 The quotations appearing in this chapter are taken from Poniatowski’s
41. PANIN, ORLOV, AND ELIZABETH’S DEATH
1 “Let the boy remain”: Kaus, 176
2 “I had rather be the mother”: Ibid., 177
3 “the terror which the enemy”: Duffy,
4 “If I were emperor”: Alexander, 55
5 “I must make room here”: Kaus, 183
6 “the head of an angel”: Ibid.
7 “a man of pleasure”: Dashkova, 1:3
8 “We spoke French fluently”: Ibid., 4
9 “I may venture to assert”: Ibid., 13
10 “She captured my heart”: Ibid., 29
11 “My child, you would do well”: Ibid., 27
12 “You are a mere child”: Ibid., 29
13 “gained me a high degree of notoriety”: Ibid., 30
14 “I saw how little”: Ibid., 31
15 “He must be mad”: Oldenbourg, 230
