14 “the cause of the king of France”: This summary of Catherine’s memorandum is based on Lariviere, 101 ff.
15 “an exemplary and unforgettable act”: Schama, 612
16 “a scum of criminals vomited”: Loomis, 75
17 “I don’t give a damn about the prisoners”: Schama, 633
18 “to protect the republic”: Thompson, 258–9
19 “the foulest and most atrocious act”: Schama, 687
20 “The revolution has no need”: Loomis, 335
21 “Madame, we must go now”: Ibid., 333
22 “The mechanism falls like thunder”: Schama, 621
23 “immediately after the decapitation”: www.guillotine.dk/Pages/30sek/html.
71. DISSENT IN RUSSIA, FINAL PARTITION OF POLAND
1 “Likely to corrupt morals”: Madariaga,
2 “beastly purpose”: Radishchev, 96
3 “breaks the head”: Ibid., 97
4 “Do you know, dear fellow citizens”: Ibid., 153
5 “has learning enough”: Ibid., 239
6 “hence the suspicion falls on M. Radishchev”: Ibid., 241
7 “the purpose of this book is clear”: Ibid., 239
8 “a rabble-rouser, worse than Pugachev”: Ibid., 11
9 “I’ve read the book you sent me”: Montefiore, 440
10 “Now I am my own master”: Radishchev, 19
11 “will oppose us with only”: Madariaga,
12 “exterminate that nest of Jacobins”: Haslip, 353
13 “I am breaking my head”: Madariaga,
14 “Apparently you ignore”: Ibid., “435
15 “soldiers of Her Imperial Majesty”: Haslip, 356
16 “Does the Diet authorize”: Madariaga,
17 “Silence means consent”: Ibid. 557 “a Russian province”: Ibid., 440
18 “the whole of Praga”: Ibid., 446
72. TWILIGHT
1 “You probably don’t need this contrivance”: Cronin, 289
2 “are you not ashamed of yourself?”: Waliszewski, 376
3 “let me march against the French!”: Kaus, 376
4 “Madame, you must be gay”: Ibid., 367
5 “Twenty years ago”: Waliszewski, 391
6 “I have said it to you before”: Ibid., 412
7 “It is astonishing”: Troyat, 236
8 “If you only knew what wonders”: Kaus, 306
9 “I am making a delicious child”: Troyat, 236
10 “He loves me instinctively”: Oldenbourg, 331
11 “It is sewn together”: Waliszewski, 413
12 “There is in my country”: Troyat, 323
13 “I didn’t know what would become of me”: Cronin, 295
14 “the grand duchess will never be troubled”: Madariaga,
15 “With the church’s blessing?”: Cronin, 296
16 “King Gustavus is not well”: Ibid., 297
17 “What I have written”: Madariaga,
18 “The fact is that the king pretended”:
73. THE DEATH OF CATHERINE THE GREAT
1 “The grand duke got out of his sleigh”: Cronin, 299
2 “Gentlemen, the Empress Catherine is dead”: Ibid., 300
3 “The subject was the unlimited power”: Madariaga,
4 “Before I became what I am today”: Haslip, 361
5 “HERE LIES CATHERINE”: Anthony, 325
6 “my name is Catherine II”: Alexander, 265
7 “Day before yesterday”: Haslip, 361
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBERT K. MASSIE was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include
