67. CRIMEAN JOURNEY AND “POTEMKIN VILLAGES”
1 “Everything was done to deter me”: Haslip, 308
2 “Your children belong to you”: Troyat, 271
3 “Your latest proposal”: Rounding, 424
4 “heavy baggage”: Madariaga,
5 “It was a time”: Haslip, 307
6 “One day when I was sitting”: Rounding, 429
7 “Here, the greenery in the meadows”: Smith,
8 “Avoid the prince”: Haslip, 310
9 “the greatest genius of her age”: Ibid., 303
10 “the pleasantest company”: Ibid., 304
11 “It is odd”: Smith,
12 “Gentlemen, the king of Poland”: Montefiore, 365
13 “It was thirty years”: Ibid., 366
14 “They spoke little”: Haslip, 314
15 “our guest’s desire that I remain here”: Smith,
16 “The king bores me”: Haslip, 315
17 “The new favorite is good-looking”: Ibid., 317
18 “I performed a great deed”: Cronin, 130
19 “What a peculiar land”: Montefiore, 371
20 “the most beautiful port I have ever seen”: Ibid., 374
21 “I love you and your service”: Smith,
22 “How I appreciate the feelings”: Ibid., 182
23 “Between you and me, my friend”: Ibid.
68. THE SECOND TURKISH WAR AND THE DEATH OF POTEMKIN
1 “You are impatient”: Madariaga,
2 “Children, I forbid you”: Soloveytchik, 301
3 “I will try to get it cheaply”: Ibid., 308
4 “You cannot capture a fortress”: Ibid.
5 “My dear friend, you alone mean more to me”: Ibid.
6 “May the Prince Gregory Alexandrovich”: Ibid., 309
7 “Hurry up, my dear friend”: Ibid.
8 “If Izmail resists”: Montefiore, 450
9 “this insane note … Sir John Falstaff”: Alexander, 270
10 “breastplate”: Haslip, 346
11 “We have pulled one paw out”: Madariaga,
12 “I here behold a Commander in Chief”: Ibid., 314
13 “Has your ship struck”: Morison, 230
14 “Paul Jones has just arrived: Ibid., 364
15 “I was entirely captivated”: Ibid.
16 “It is to you alone”: Montefiore, 400
17 “Our victory is complete”: Ibid.
18 “I hope to be subjected”: Morison, 382
19 “nobody wished to serve:: Ibid., 384
20 “She then indulged”: Ibid., 387
21 “The charge against me is an unworthy”: Ibid., 388
22 “The accusation against me is false”: Ibid. 513 “Paul Jones is no more guilty than I”: Montefiore, 421
23 “I must pull out the tooth”: Soloveytchik, 326
24 “When one looks at the Prince-Marshal Potemkin”: Ibid., 327
25 “The child sends his greetings”: Ibid., 335
26 “I could not remove him from my path”: Montefiore, 478
27 “Please send me a Chinese dressing gown”: Ibid., 338
28 “the first pianist and one of the best composers”: Montefiore, 482
29 “Take that which”: Smith,
30 “I’m not going to recover”: Soloveytchik, 340
31 “Tell me frankly”: Ibid.
32 “Good hands”: Ibid., 341
33 “Matushka, oh how sick I am!”: Smith,
34 “I have no more strength”: Ibid., 390
35 “This will be enough”: Soloveytchik, 342
36 “the prince is no longer on this earth”: Ibid., 343
37 “Now I have no one left”: Ibid.
69. ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
1 “The Walpole paintings are no longer to be had”: Descargues, 42
2 “The Comte de Baudoin leaves it”: Ibid., 44
3 “The world is a strange place”: Ibid.
4 “We are prodigiously delighted”: Ibid.
5 “I am a glutton”: Waliszewski, 344
6 “You should know our mania”: Madariaga,
7 “Now I love to distraction”: Waliszewski, 390
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9 “My posterity is Your Majesty”: Waliszewski, 341 529 “What a charming picture”: Descargues, 26
10 “My paintings are beautiful”: Ibid., 29
11 “They have not made, as I have”: Rounding, 221
12 “There is an old song”: Ibid., 222
13 “I hear only praise”: Ibid.
14 “in general, everyone is very happy”: Ibid.
15 “You will choose honest and reasonable people”: Waliszewski, 350
16 The lines from Pushkin’s “The Bronze Horseman” are cited in Yarmolinski, ed., 106–107
70. “THEY ARE CAPABLE OF HANGING THEIR KING FROM A LAMPPOST!”
1 “to God and the country never to be separated”: Schama, 359
2 “Go tell those who have sent you”: Schama, 363
3 “null, illegal, and unconstitutional”: Winik, 124
4 “I fear that the greatest obstacle”: Gooch, 103
5 “French, Russians, Danes”: Madariaga,
6 “I cannot believe in the superior talents”: Gooch, 99
7 “They are capable of hanging their king”: Madariaga,
8 “Above all, I hope”: Gooch, 99
9 “I am sad to see you go”: Haslip, 341
10 “I am afraid so, Madame”: Ibid.
11 “the Hydra with twelve hundred heads”: Waliszewski, 351
12 “only people who set in motion a machine”: Gooch, 100
13 “Tell a thousand people to draft a letter”: Cronin, 269
