Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

CHAPTER 22: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF GRIGORY ALEXANDROVICH

1 IV (1889) vol 37: 683–4, G. P. Alexeev.

2 Thiébault vol 2 p 78.

3 RA (1877) 1 p 479 Ribeaupierre.

4 RGADA f11.

5 Castera vol 3 p 296.

6 SIRIO 23 (1878): 300, CII to Baron F. M. Grimm 5 April 1784.

7 M. Fournier-Sarloveze, Artistes Oubliés, pp 95–6.

8 Ségur quoted in Castera vol 2 p 333.

9 Masson p 110.

10 Davis p 148. SIRIO 54 (1886): 148–9, Duc de Richelieu, ‘Journal de mon voyage en Allemagne’.

11 Ségur quoted in Castera vol 3 p 333.

12 SIRIO 54 (1886): 148–9, Richelieu, ‘Mon voyage’.

13 Ségur quoted in Castera vol 2 p 333.

14 Ségur, Memoirs (Shelley) pp 210–11.

15 Ligne’s famous description of GAP is taken from Letters (Staël) vol 2 p 6, Prince de Ligne to the Comte de Ségur August 1788, Ochakov. This is the source for Ligne quotations in this chapter unless otherwise stated. SIRIO 53 (1886): p 147–8, Richelieu, ‘Mon voyage’

16 Davis p 148.

17 Ségur, Memoirs (Shelley) p 252.

18 Anspach, Journey p 137, 18 February 1786.

19 RGIA 1146.1.33.

20 SIRIO 33 (1881): 239, Grimm to CII, 10/21 September 1786, Paris.

21 RGADA 11.889.2, Prince Lubomirsky to GAP, 15 August 1787.

22 B&F vol 2 p 194, JII to Count Cobenzl 12 September 1787; p 55, Cobenzl to JII October 1785. RGADA 11.928.8, Cobenzl to GAP 26 March 1786.

23 RGVIA 52.2.61.7, Prince F. M. Golitsyn, Russian Ambassador to Vienna, to GAP 26 August/6 September 1781.

24 Miranda p 272, 6 and 7 March 1787.

25 RGADA 85.1.488, L 204, CII to GAP. SIRIO 23 (1878): 333, 372, 374, CII to Grimm 15 April 1785 and 17 February 1786. And 17 June 1786, Pella.

26 Damas p 109. SIRIO 26 (1879): 315, Marquis de Parelo.

27 Ségur, Mémoires 1859 pp 358–9. List of Potemkin’s Wardrobe at his Death. CHOIDR (1891) book IV pp 15–53. Spisok domov i dvizhimogo imushchestva G. A. Potemkina-Tavricheskogo, kuplennogo u naslednikov ego imperatritsyey Ekateranoy II. Also SIRIO 54 (1886): p 148–9, Richelieu, ‘Mon voyage’

28 Brockliss, ‘Concluding Remarks’, in Elliott and Brockliss pp 298–9.

29 Harris p 338, H to Viscount Stormont 16/27 February 1781.

30 Brockliss, ‘Concluding Remarks’, in Elliott and Brockliss p 282.

31 Waliszewski, Autour d’un trône vol 1 p 153.

32 SIRIO 23: 84, CII to Grimm 2–4 March 1778.

33 SIRIO 23: 73, CII to Grimm 22 December 1777, St Petersburg.

34 Anspach, Journey p 137.

35 Wiegel vol 1 p 291 J. H. Plumb Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman p 124. Frederick K. Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison, Manic–Depressive Illness pp 332–67 esp. pp 342–56. See also Kay Redfield Jamison, The Unquiet Mind.

36 Ségur, Memoirs (Shelley) pp 210–11.

37 Ségur, Memoirs (Shelley) p 212.

38 Moskvityanin zhurnal (1852) no 2 January book 2 p 88.

39 Thiébault vol 2 p 78.

40 SIRIO 26 (1879): 35, Parelo.

41 Engelhardt 1997 p 68.

42 Moskvityanin zhurnal (1852) no 2 January book 2 p 92.

43 Castera vol 3 p 128.

44 Miranda p 238, 13 January 1787.

45 RGADA 5.169.1, Prince Charles of Courland 2 March 1787, Cracow. RGADA 11.925.15, Princess Dashkova to GAP ud. RGADA 11.946.229, Professor Bataille to GAP ud, 1784. RGADA 5.17.1–10, Frederick-William of Württemberg to GAP 7/8 September 1784. RGADA 5.166.8, SA to GAP 7 May 1787. RGADA 11.896.1, Ernest of Hesse to GAP ud, 1780. All unpublished. B&F vol 1 p 464, JII to Cobenzl 13 May 1784.

46 RGADA 11.918.1, G. Golovchin to GAP 22 August 1784 (Naryshkin marriage). RGADA 11.937.3, Count de Sayn and Wittgenstein to GAP (out of favour with CtG) 1 August 1780. RGADA 11.946.430–4, Elias Abaise Prince de Palestine (?) to GAP August 1780. RGVIA 52.2.89.145 and 146, Princess Bariatinskaya to GAP 2 September 1790 and 11 March 1791, Turin. RGADA 11.946.303 and 315, Nicolas Carpoff to GAP 27 May and 25 September 1786, Kherson. All unpublished.

47 RGADA 11.946.43–4, Elias Abaise Prince de Palestine (?) to GAP August 1780 and ud, unpublished.

48 Ribeaupierre p 479.

49 SBVIM vol 7 p 399, GAP to Rear-Admiral Count Mark Voinovich 9 October 1789.

50 Niemcewicz pp 79–80.

51 Niemcewicz p 79.

52 Ligne, Letters (Staël) p 75, Ligne to JII April 1788, Elisabethgrad.

53 RGADA 11.867.11, K. Branicki to GAP ud, unpublished.

54 RGADA 11.946.385, Alexis Deuza to GAP 24 August 1784, Ozerki, unpublished.

55 RGADA 11.902a, Register of GAP’s Debts.

56 RGADA 11.946.378, C. D. Duval to GAP February 1784, unpublished.

57 RGADA 52.2.35.7, Pierre Tepper of Warsaw to GAP 25 September 1788, unpublished.

58 Karnovich pp 265–9. Waliszewski, Autour d’un trône vol 1 p 155.

59 BM 33540 f6, SB to JB 20 January 1784.

60 SIRIO 54 (1886): 148–9, Richelieu, ‘Mon voyage’

61 Miranda pp 229–30, 1 January 1787.

62 Derzhavin vol 6 p 444.

63 BM 33540 f64, SB to Reginald Pole Carew 18 June 1784.

64 RGVIA f5 op 194 book 409, order to Brzokovsky 28 January 1787. Waliszewski, Autour d’un trône vol 1 p 157.

65 RS 11 pp 722–3.

66 SIRIO 27: 238–9. ZOOID 11: 346–7.

67 Wiegel 1864 p 30.

68 Wiegel 1864 p 30.