3 “The prisoner is somewhat quieter”: Ibid.
4 “painful and almost unintelligible stammering”: Ibid., 278
5 “The prisoner shall not be allowed”: Ibid., 280
6 “Release us”: Ibid.
7 “Compliance with your request”: Ibid.
8 “Make your own career, young man”: Ibid., 282
9 “Not long had Peter III possessed”: Madariaga,
10 “If the others agree”: Kaus, 285
11 “Where is the emperor?”: Alexander, 91
12 “See, my brothers”: Kaus, 285
13 “The ways of God are wonderful”: Madariaga,
14 “she left here with an air”: Waliszewski, 264
15 “As regards the insult”: Kaus, 287
16 “loyally performing their duty”: Ibid., 288
17 “The manifesto she has issued”: Troyat, 167
18 “It seems to me that if I were on the throne”: Ibid.
19 “I am tempted to say to you”: Ibid.
50. CATHERINE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1 “Whatever style I possess”: Haslip, 157
2 “The victorious nation never profits”: Durant, 10:151
3 “Oh, mighty God, I believe”: Ibid., 9:750
4 “Tell them I am very sick”: Ibid., 10:133
5 “the highest and coldest garret”: Ibid.
6 “hanged, drowned, broken on the wheel”: Ibid., 9:731
7 “It took two hours”: Ibid., 9:733
8 “I shall be coming to Paris”: Ibid., 10:392
9 “For my part, I am consoled”: Ibid., 10:139
10 “He governed the whole civilized world”: Ibid., 9:784
11 “Since Voltaire died”: Anthony, 229
12 “these are family matters”: Gorbatov, 70
13 “I believe we must moderate”: Ibid.
14 “Semiramis of the North”: Durant, 9:448
15 “try to persuade the octogenarian”: Madariaga,
16 “in certain ways … a hundred”: Gorbatov, 177
17 “You and M. Diderot”: Durant, 9:719
18 “Go on, brave Diderot”: Ibid.
19 “It would be cruel”: Gooch, 60
20 “I prostrate myself”: Troyat, 177
21 “we are three who would build you altars”: Ibid., 178
22 “Thirty years of labor”: Ibid.
23 “I never thought”: Gorbatov, 156
24 “That door will be opened to you”: Oliva, 119
25 “my good lady”: Troyat, 207
26 “an extraordinary man”: Durant, 9:448
27 “I have listened”: Troyat, 207
28 “Now you sit beside Caesar”: Ibid., 209
29 “Madame, I am positively in disgrace”: Reddaway, 198
30 “Live, Monsieur”: Ibid., 199
31 “returned to her in chains”: Ibid., 200
51. THE
1 “one of the most remarkable political treatises”: Madariaga,
2 “Russia is a European state”: Ibid., 153
3 “it is much better to prevent than to punish crimes”: Reddaway, 225
4 “productive of nothing”: Ibid., 288
5 “The use of torture is contrary”: Ibid., 231
6 “without any sensible inconveniences”: Ibid., 232
7 “What right can give anyone authority”: Ibid., 244
8 “All punishments by which the human body”: Ibid., 227
9 “Some judges should be of the same rank”: Ibid., 232
10 “a civil society requires a certain established order”: Ibid., 256
11 “Why should they bother to be clean”: Haslip, 162
12 “These are axioms which will bring down walls”: Madariaga,
13 “I let them erase what they pleased”: Ibid.
14 “Since the Law of Nature”: Reddaway, 256
15 “I have decked myself out in peacock’s feathers”: Grey, 147
16 “I have robbed Montesquieu”: Troyat, 179
17 “would have been capable”: Troyat, 182
18 “the finest monument of the age”: Gooch, 67
19 “A masculine, nervous performance”: Troyat, 182
20 “I must warn Your Majesty”: Madariaga,
52. “ALL FREE ESTATES OF THE REALM”
1 “By this institution, we give to our people”: Alexander, 102
2 “you will receive a letter”: Ibid., 103
3 “There can be nothing more pleasant”: Ibid., 108
4 “These laws, about which so much has been said”: Ibid., 109
5 “There are so many objects”: Ibid.
6 “Here, the people along the Volga”: Ibid., 110
7 “The town rose high on a hill”: Kerensky, 3
8 “to glorify yourselves and your country”: Alexander, 112
9 “I brought them together to study laws”: Troyat, 181
10 “Have they really already lost”: Alexander, 115
11 “The peasant has his feelings”: Madariaga,
12 “The majority of votes”: Ibid., 159
13 “And have their throats cut from time to time”: Ibid., 160
14 “cannot have in present circumstances”: Ibid.
15 “A general emancipation”: Alexander, 116
16 “What had I not to suffer”: Anthony, 215
17 “The idea that the principal purpose”: Madariaga,
53. “THE KING WE HAVE MADE”
1 “I am sending Count Keyserling”: Kaus, 262
2 “fortunate anarchy”: Alexander, 123
3 “There is a vast difference between melons”: Kaus, 264
4 “to resort, if need be, to force of arms”: Ibid., 265
5 “without the slightest mercy”: Alexander, 126 367 “Do not laugh at me”: Kaus, 263
6 “I beg you most urgently not to come here”: Coughlan, 228
7 “a thousand inconveniences”: Ibid.
8 “in the hands of the brothers Orlov”: Ibid., 229
9 “I beg of you to listen to me”: Kaus, 263
10 “the new king we have made”: Ibid., 266
