16 “Of an army of forty-eight thousand”: Asprey, 520
17 “What is wrong with me”: Duffy,
18 “I intend to continue the war”: Oldenbourg, 222
19 The account of Dashkova’s nocturnal visit and conversation with Catherine is from Dashkova, 1:32–35
20 “Her Imperial Majesty, Elizabeth Petrovna”: Haslip, 108
42. THE BRIEF REIGN OF PETER 111
1 “I did not think”: Bain,
2 “If, my little friend, you will take my advice”: Dashkova, 1:38
3 “The moderation and clemency”; Bain,
4 “I can find nobody here”: Ibid.
5 “the chief instrument of the Prussian party”: Ibid., 56
6 “at a dinner”: Ibid.
7 “resolved to get free”: Ibid., 57
8 “We must make peace”: Ibid., 63
9 “honor of all the valiant officers”: Ibid., 74
10 “nothing was omitted”: Ibid.
11 “out of compassion”: Ibid., 77
12 “the maintenance of solemn engagements”: Ibid., 79
13 “Frankly, I distrust these Russians”: Ibid., 116
14 “If the Russians had wanted”: Ibid., 117
43.
1 “It does not appear”: Bain,
2 “The empress is abandoned”: Ibid., 130
3 “pot-house wench”: Ibid., 126
4 “broad, puffy, pock-marked face”: Ibid.
5
6 “It was then that I began to listen”: Bain,
7 “Your Majesty can have your revenge”: Ibid., 134
8 “You already know too much”: Kaus, 214
9 “Matushka, Little Mother, wake up!”: Anthony, 165
10 “Matushka, forgive us”: Madariaga,
11 “Heaven be praised!”: Dashkova, 1:81
12 “like a fifteen-year-old boy”: Ibid., 1:98
13 “I go now with the army”: Alexander, 9
14 “Didn’t I always tell you”: Bain,
15 “We no longer have an emperor!”: Ibid., 160
16 “I accept the offer”: Ibid., 161
17 “I, Peter, of my own free will”: Kaus, 233
18 “like a child being sent to bed”: Ibid.
44. “WE OURSELVES KNOW NOT WHAT WE DID”
1 “the greatest misfortune of my life”: Madariaga,
2 “By what right”: Dashkova, 1:89
3 “I realized with unspeakable pain”: Ibid., 1:90
4 “I beg Your Majesty”: Peter’s letters from Ropsha to Catherine, Anthony, 176–77
5 “Matushka, Little Mother”: Madariaga,
6 “His face wore an expression”: Oldenbourg, 252
7 “We ourselves know not what we did”: Kaus, 244
8 “My horror at this death”: Dashkova, 1:107
9 “On the seventh day of our reign”: Kaus, 246
10 “might spare her health”: Troyat, 139
11 “Peter III had lost the few wits”: Bain,
12 “it teaches us to be sober”: Cronin, 156
13 “The empress was quite ignorant of this crime”: Haslip, 133
14 “What do they say in Paris”: Anthony, 180
45. CORONATION
1 “The least soldier of the guards”: Alexander, 67
2 “You only did your duty”: Cronin, 172
3 “I implore Your Majesty”: Dashkova, 1:97
4 “the Princess Dashkova played only a minor part”: Haslip, 144,
5 The exchange between Catherine and Betskoy is from Dashkova, 1:101–2, and Kaus, 240
6 “a woman of middle height”: Scott Thomson, 85–86
7 “the Lord has placed the crown”: Grey, 119
8 “I cannot go out”: Ibid.
46. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH
1 “In the Treasury”: Waliszewski, 313
2 “an ignominious peace”: Kaus, 239
3 “no suitable costume”: Ibid.
4 “Concerning the peace”: Ibid.
5 “such a vast and limitless empire”: Haslip, 137
6 “Full reports will be brought to me”: Ibid.,
7 “Belonging herself to the nation”: Ibid.
8 “I cannot say that you are lacking”: Madariaga,
9 “the eye of the sovereign”: Ibid., 40
10 “In the Senate”: Ibid., 44–45
11 “You must know”: Ibid., 58
12 “sat like dumb dogs without barking”: Ibid., 116
13 “stretch out their hands”: Kaus, 254
14 “Our present sovereign”: Madariaga,
15 “Stop his mouth!”: Ibid. 301 Andrew the Liar: Ibid., 117
16 “You are the successors”: Kaus, 255
47. SERFDOM
1 “For sale, a barber”: Oldenbourg, 285
2 “Anyone wishing to buy”: Waliszewski, 304
3 “For sale: domestics and skilled craftsmen”: Grey, 122
4 “If we do not agree”: Ibid., 164
5 “There! You have the people free!”: Cronin, 262
6 “What has disgusted me”: Grey, 122
7 “I punished him”: Smith,
8 “This is one of my fiddlers”: Ibid. 312 “a miracle of color”: Ibid., 70
9 “I had the most tender”: Ibid., 71
48. “MADAME ORLOV COULD NEVER BE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA”
1 “The men who surround me”: Haslip, 143
2 “Perhaps you are right”: Alexander, 74
3 “Tell Her Imperial Majesty”: Kaus, 271
4 “everyone should go about his own business”: Ibid., 273
5 “If the empress wants me to lay my head”: Haslip, 149
6 “It is my earnest desire”: Dashkova, 1:128
7 “There would never”: Smith,
8 “You will not be surprised”: Haslip, 178
49. THE DEATH OF IVAN VI
1 “Take care!”: Kaus, 277
2 “If the prisoner is insubordinate”: Ibid.
