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16 RGVIA 52.7.1.13, GAP to Count Rzewowski, 7 November 1788, Quartier-Genéral Ochakov, unpublished. AVPRI 5.585.278, L 320, GAP to CII 17 October 1788. ZOOID 4: 363, GAP to M. L. Faleev 14 August 1788, Ochakov. ZOOID 2: 667, 668, GAP to Faleev.

17 Lettres de Catherine II au prince de Ligne p 81, JII to Ligne 18 June 1788.

18 CII – Ligne pp 96–7, Cobenzl to Ligne. Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 157, Ligne to JII; p 75. RGVIA f VUA.2388.7, L 291, GAP to CII 8 June 1788, Camp on the Bug. AVPRI 5.585.278, L 320, GAP to CII 17 October 1788.

19 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 176.

20 AAE 20: 74, Langeron, ‘Résumé des campagnes’.

21 Aragon pp 268–70, N-S.

22 RGADA 11.864.2.91, Praskovia Potemkina to GAP (unsigned but probably Praskovia Potemkina), unpublished.

23 RP 2.1 p 36, Countess Ekaterina Sergeevna Samoilova.

24 Damas pp 66–9.

25 Damas pp 63–4.

26 Ligne, Mélanges vol 7 pp 198–201, Ligne to Ségur I December 1788. Ligne, Letters (Staël) vol 2 p 16, Ligne to Ségur I October 1788.

27 BM 33540 f489 and 33558 f443 and f445, SB to JB. BM 33558 f442, William Newton to J. T. Abbot 10 September 1789. Christie, Benthams in Russia p 241.

28 RGVIA 52.2.89.64–5, Lewis Littlepage to GAP 16 September 1788; and GAP to Little page 16 September 1788, both unpublished.

29 RGVIA 52.2.82.21, GAP to John Paul Jones ud, unpublished.

30 AVPRI 585.278, L 320, GAP to CII 17 October 1788.

31 RGVIA 52.11.82.23, John Paul Jones to GAP, 20 October 1788 on board battleship Vladimir before Ochakov, unpublished.

32 Otis pp 352–4. Preedy p 223.

33 Preedy p 216. Otis pp 335–52. Morison p 382.

34 Damas pp 70–1. AVPRI 5.585.278, L 320, GAP to CII 17 October 1788.

35 RGADA 11.893.11, Ligne to GAP 16 September 1788, unpublished.

36 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 pp 25, 26, 32.

37 Damas pp 70–1.

38 AVPRI 5.585.278, L 320, GAP to CII 17 October 1788, Ochakov.

39 Damas p 72.

40 B&F vol 2 p 299, Cobenzl to JII 24 October 1788.

41 AAE 20: 74, Langeron, ‘Résumé des campagnes’.

42 Damas pp 66–7.

43 BM 33540 f489, SB to JB.

44 Criste, Kriege unter Kaiser Josef II p 222 n3, quoted in Blanning, JII p 178.

45 Samoilov col 1251.

46 Damas pp 63–4.

47 RS (1895) 84 no 9 Tsebrikov p 172, 12–15 June; p 177, 28 July; p 151, 5 June 1788.

48 AVPRI 5.585.273, GAP to CII 15 September 1788.

49 RGADA 5.85.2.150–1, L 327, CII to GAP 27 November 1788.

50 RGADA 5.85.2.145–7, L 322, CII to GAP 19 October 1788.

51 AVPRI 5.585.284–5, L 324, GAP to CII 3 November 1788.

52 RGADA 5.85.2.152–3, CII to GAP 7 November 1788.

53 AVPRI 5.585.286–7, L 326, GAP to CII 17 November 1788.

54 RS (1876) 16 p 213, 16 August 1788; p 220, Garnovsky to Popov 1 October 1788.

55 RS (1876) 16 pp 229–30, Garnovsky to Popov 29 November 1788.

56 Damas p 72.

57 BM 33554 f96, Fanshawe 15 February 1789, Kiev.

58 Damas pp 74–5.

59 RGADA 5.85.2.150–1, L 327, CII to GAP 27 November 1788.

60 Damas pp 79–84. BM 33554 f98, Fanshawe.

61 Samoilov col 1251.

62 Damas pp 79–83.

63 Macdonogh p 299.

64 AVPRI 5.585.290, L 330, GAP to CII 26 December 1788.

65 Damas pp 84–6.

66 Samoilov col 1256. Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin p 187.

67 ZOOID 9 (1875): 459, the song in honour of the capture of Ochakov. There are also the songs dedicated to GAP’s 1790 campaign (p 461) and his death.

68 Damas pp 86–7. Samoilov cols 1256–7. BM 33554 f98, Fanshawe.

69 AAE 20: 81, Langeron, ‘Résumé des campagnes’. Masson p 312.

70 AVPRI 5.585.290–3, GAP to CII 26 December 1788, Ochakov.

71 Damas pp 88–9.

72 AVPRI 5.585.288–9, L 328, GAP to CII December 1788.

73 Samoilov col 1258. Masson p 312.

74 RGADA 5.85.2.149, L 329, CII to GAP 16 December 1788. The engraved silver oval dish given by CII to GAP in commemoration of Ochakov can now be seen in the Armoury Museum of the Kremlin in Moscow. The medallion in his honour was created by K. Leberecht. RGADA 5.85.2.185, L 371, CII to GAP 7 September 1789.

75 JII–CII (Arneth) p 325, JII to Prince Kaunitz 2 February 1789; letter CLXVI, JII to CII 5 January 1789.

76 B&F vol 2 p 316, Philip Cobenzl to Ludwig Cobenzl 5 January 1789, Vienna. Also RGVIA 52.2.55.72, report from Vienna on GAP’s letter to the Prince de Ligne, concerning his conduct of the war 15 February 1791, unpublished.

77 RGVIA 52.2.82.24, GAP to N-S 7 December 1788, Ochakov, unpublished.

78 Davis p 194.

79 SIRIO 23 (1878): 467, CII to Baron F. M. Grimm 17 December 1788. Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin p 190.

80 AVPRI 5.585.290–3, L 330, GAP to CII.

81 Damas pp 89–90.

82 Damas p 93.

83 P. V. Zavadovsky, Pisma Zavadovskago Rumiantsevu p 320, P. V. Zavadovsky to P. A. Rumiantsev-Zadunaisky January 1789.

84 RGADA 5.85.2.155, L 333, CII to GAP 2 February 1789.

85 Khrapovitsky pp 229 and 238, 26 January 1789.

86 RS (1876) 16 pp 234–5 and 226, Garnovsky to Popov 3 January and 3 February 1789.

87 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin pp 195–7.