2 “Do you remember how”: Ibid., 110
3 “I have noticed that your mother”: Smith,
4 “On Sunday, I happened to be seated”: Soloveytchik, 112
5 “As long as my bed remains”: Ibid., 119
6 “If there are no mistakes”: Smith,
7 “This is really too much!”: Soloveytchik, 131
8 “It is a hundred years”: Smith,
9 “The rebellion in a great part”: Soloveytchik, 143
61. CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN: SEPARATION
1 “My dear friend, I don’t know why”: Smith,
2 “Your long letter and stories”: Ibid., 57
3 “You were in a mood to quarrel”: Ibid., 67
4 “Precious darling”: Ibid.
5 “I wrote you a letter”: Ibid., 75
6 “Do me this one favor”: Ibid., 77
7 “Such rage ought to be expected”: Ibid., 80
8 “My Lord and Dear Husband!”: Ibid., 77
9 “Should you not find pleasure”: Ibid., 81
10 “May God forgive you”: Ibid., 82
11 “Your Most Gracious Majesty”: Ibid., 83
12 “I read your letter”: Ibid., 84
13 “To present this comedy to society”: Ibid., 85
14 “Matushka, here is the result”: Ibid.
15 “Your foolish acts remain the same”: Ibid., 68
16 “Listening to you talk sometimes”: Ibid., 74
17 “God knows I don’t intend”: Ibid., 87
18 “Your Most Gracious Majesty”: Ibid.
19 “You know, Madam, I am your slave”: Soloveytchik, 195
62. NEW RELATIONSHIPS
1 “My husband has written me”: Smith,
2 “You ask for Zavadovsky’s removal”: Ibid., 85
3 “Varinka, I love you”: Soloveytchik, 167
4 “Listen, my dearest, Varinka is very sick”: Smith,
5 “What’s the use of all this?”: Soloveytchik, 170
6 “Would it not be charming”: Anthony, 315
63. FAVORITES
1 “with the greatest dignity”: Coughlan, 294
2 “Last night I was in love with him”: Haslip, 257
3 “Pyrrhus, king of Epirus”: Kaus, 326,
4 “Big books at the bottom”: Cronin, 256
5 “changed his original common name”: Haslip, 261
6 “kind, gay, honest”: Madariaga,
7 “compared to the others, he was an angel”: Haslip, 288
8 “they helped, but I could not endure”: Alexander, 217
9 “I am plunged into the most profound grief”: Ibid., 216
10 “From Catherine to my dearest friend”: Haslip, 290
11 “I am once more inwardly calm”: Ibid., 292
12 “You cur, you monkey”: Ibid., 299
13 “Either he or I must go!”: Ibid.
14 “They slept until nine o’clock”: Alexander, 218
15 “We are as clever”: Coughlan, 295
16 “Sasha is beyond price”: Haslip, 305
17 “stifling”: Ibid., 306
18 “It is your duty to remain”: Ibid., 330
19 “cold and preoccupied”: Alexander, 219
20 “a girl most ordinary”: Ibid., 220
21 “God grant them happiness”: Gooch, 51
22 “I have never been”: Alexander, 222
23 “constantly tortures my soul”: Ibid.
64. CATHERINE, PAUL, AND NATALIA
1 “We have never had a jollier time”: Gooch, 26
2 “I return to town on Tuesday”: Ibid.
3 “Everything is done to excess”: Alexander, 227
4 “The grand duke”: Smith,
5 “Her friends are, with reason”: Alexander, 228
6 “Never in my life”: Ibid.
7 “For three days”: Haslip, 239
8 “perfectly formed boy”: Alexander, 229
9 I have wasted no time”: Troyat, 232
10 “since it has been proven”: Ibid., 231
65. PAUL, MARIA, AND THE SUCCESSION
1 “I hope that in time”: Ibid., 231
2 “Nothing can exceed”: Gooch, 29
3 “The grand duke is exceedingly amiable”: Ibid.
4 “my daughter.… Be assured”: Alexander, 232
5 “We shall have her here”: Anthony, 277
6 “My son has returned”: Alexander, 233.
7 “I swear to love and adore you”: Troyat, 234
8 “This dear husband is an angel”: Gooch, 30
9 “Wherever she goes”: Ibid.
10 “had been given a map of Europe”: Haslip, 285
11 “whether his Polish majesty”: Ibid., 286
12 “prefers stewed fruit”: Ibid.
13 “an ardent and impetuous man”: Waliszewski, 403
14 “The grand duke is greatly undervalued”: Gooch, 30
15 “When they admitted me”: Ibid., 32
16 “He combined plenty of intelligence”: Ibid., 33
17 “You tax me with my hypochondria”: Anthony, 287
18 “Permit me to write you often”: Ibid.
19 “One cannot see everything”: Troyat, 323
20 “I told you that your request”: Gooch, 27
21 “I shall be separated”: Gooch, 34
22 “There is no one”: Anthony, 288
23 “I see into what hands”: Gooch, 35
24 “I hope not in the time of M. Alexander”: Ibid., 36
66. POTEMKIN: BUILDER AND DIPLOMAT
1 “Is that a soldier’s business?”: Soloveytchik, 177
2 “such a mixture of wit”: Ibid., 221
3 “She had the strongest desire to help us”: Ibid., 201
4 “You have chosen an unlucky moment”: Ibid., 212
5 “The interest I take in everything”: Ibid., 216
6 “Flatter her as much as you can”: Ibid., 225
7 “You can demand of us”: Ibid.
8 The dialogue between Potemkin and Harris regarding an Anglo-Russian alliance is drawn from Soloveytchik, 227–45
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10 “The acquisition of the Crimea”: Soloveytchik, 180
