Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

73 BM 33540 f296, JB to Prince Dashkov 19 July 1786.

74 Soloveytchik, Potemkin.

75 Jeremy Bentham, Correspondence vol 3 pp 599–611, Diary of JB’s Departure.

76 Zakalinskaya pp 37, 41–3. Christie, Benthams in Russia p 206. Christie, ‘Samuel Bentham at Krichev’ p 197.

77 Lincolnshire Archives Office, Lincoln, Yarborough Collection, Worsley MS 24 pp 182–4. Sir Richard Worsley also met Lady Craven and was, like Samuel Bentham, friends with Prince Pavel Dashkov. Cross, By the Banks of the Neva pp 357–8.

78 BM 33540 f88, SB to JB 18 July 1784.

CHAPTER 21: THE WHITE NEGRO

1 SIRIO 23 (1878): 319, CII to Baron F. M. Grimm 14 September 1784. Masson p 107. Alexander, CtG pp 216–19, and Madariaga, Russia pp 354–6.

2 Parkinson pp 45–9. Dashkova pp 215, 229–30. RA (1886) no 3 pp 244–5, Iz zapisok doctora Veikarta. Masson p 107.

3 SIRIO 26: 280–1, A. A. Bezborodko to GAP 29 June 1784.

4 SIRIO 23 (1878): 244, CII to Grimm 29 June 1782, and SIRIO 23: 316–17, 7/18 June 1784.

5 SIRIO 23: 316–17, CII to Grimm 25 June 1784.

6 SIRIO 23: 344.

7 AKV 21: letter 6 p 464, E. Poliasky to Simon Vorontsov 18 August 1784. SIRIO 23: 317–18, CII to Grimm 9/18 September 1784. AKV 31, Alexander Vorontsov to Simon Vorontsov 21 July 1784, Riga.

8 B&F vol 1 p 17, Count Cobenzl to JII 5 May NS 1780.

9 Harris p 366, H to Viscount Stormont 14/25 May 1781.

10 Harris, H to Stormont 21 July/1 August 1780.

11 RGADA 1.1/1.54.45, L 203, CII to GAP. RGADA 5.85.1.498, L 204, GAP to CII.

12 RGADA 1.1/1.43.63, L 204.

13 Engelhardt 1868 p 49.

14 Saint-Jean ch 6 pp 40–8.

15 SIRIO 23: CII to Grimm 31 August 1781. It was at this time that Catherine is said to have had the short affair with Semyon Fyodorovich Uvarov, the Guards officer who entertained GAP by playing his bandore and dancing the prisiadka. However, if true, this short interlude led to nothing and Uvarov returned to his respectable career in the Guards. For an example of this story, see Vitale p 143.

16 Dashkova vol 1 p 218.

17 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin pp 89–90.

18 Dashkova vol 1 pp 341–2.

19 Author’s visit to Anichkov Palace 1998, guided by Ina Lokotnikova. Engelhardt 1997 pp 39–40.

20 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin pp 89–90. Engelhardt 1868 pp 50–1.

21 B&F vol 2 p 37, Cobenzl to JII 14 May 1785. V. I. Levashov’s friendly letters to GAP, dating from 1774, are in RGADA 2.1.946.2–3 and RGVIA 52.2.59.6.

22 B&F vol 2 p 37, Cobenzl to JII 14 May 1785.

23 Damas p 97.

24 SIRIO 42: 123, CII November 1790.

25 Dimsdale 27 September OS 1781. Anspach, Journey p 134, 18 February 1786.

26 Golovina p 6.

27 Masson p 93. Dimsdale p 51, 27 August 1781. This description of Tsarskoe Selo draws on Shvidkovsky pp 41–106.

28 SIRIO 23: 89, CII to Grimm 16 May 1778.

29 Shvidkovsky p 191.

30 Dimsdale p 72, 25 September OS 1781; p 62, 27 August 1781.

31 Damas p 95.

32 BM 33539 f39, SB 8 April 1780, St Petersburg.

33 Dimsdale, p 51, 27 August 1781.

34 SIRIO 23. 438, CII to Grimm 22 February 1788.

35 Damas p 97.

36 Harris p 304, H to Stormont 13/24 December 1780.

37 M. Garnovsky, Zapiski: RS (1876) 15, 16, 17; see 15 p 699, January 1788. Mikhail Garnovsky sent these reports to V. S. Popov, who digested the news and passed it on to GAP.

38 RGADA 5.85.2.88, L 274, CII to GAP 8 March 1788.

39 Pushkin, Polnoye Sobranige Sochineniya vol 11 p 16.

40 Engelhardt 1868 p 29. Anonymous, c 1787, General Observations Regarding the Present State of the Russian Empire p 29. Harris p 413, H to Stormont 16/27 November 1781.

41 SIRIO 23 (1878), CII to Grimm 30 June 1785, Peterhof.

42 Garnovsky, RS (1876) 15 p 226, 3 February 1789.

43 Garnovsky, RS (1876) 16 p 9.

44 Dashkova vol 1 pp 291–5.

45 Ségur, Mémoires 1827 vol 3 p 46, CII on the ‘eye of the master’. Masson p 79.

46 Ségur, Memoirs 1827 vol 2 p 359.

47 SIRIO 23 (1878): p 353, CII to Grimm June 1785. SIRIO 23: 353, CII to Grimm 1 June 1785.

48 Ségur, Memoirs 1827 vol 2 pp 393, 419.

49 B&F vol 2 p 75, Cobenzl to JII 1 November 1786.

50 Ségur, Memoirs 1827 p 418.

51 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin pp 98–103.

52 Khrapovitsky 30 May 1786.

53 Ségur, Memoirs 1827 vol 2 pp 418–19.

54 GARF 728.1.416.54, L 206, CII to GAP (after 28 June 1786?). KFZ 17–28 June 1786.

55 B&F vol 2 p 75, Cobenzl to JII 1 November 1786.

56 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin pp 103–4.

57 Khrapovitsky p 13.

58 RGADA 1.1/1.43.1–16, L 206, GAP to CII (July 1786?).

59 Khrapovitsky p 13.

60 B&F vol 2 p 75, Cobenzl to JII 1 November 1786.

61 RGADA 11.902, Count A. D. Mamonov to GAP ud.

62 Ségur, Memoirs 1827 vol 2 p 420.

63 Garnovsky, RS (1876) 15 pp 15–16, December 1786; p 474, October 1787. Damas p 109.

64 Davis p 148.

65 Corberon vol 2 p 365, 19 September 1780.

66 Miranda p 204, 22 November 1786.

67 Saint-Jean ch 6 p 40.