Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

58 RGADA 5.85.2.291, L 461, CII to GAP 25 July 1791. KFZ 24 July 1791.

CHAPTER 33: THE LAST RIDE

1 Michel Oginski, Mémoires sur la Pologne and les Polonais vol 1 ch 7 pp 146–53.

2 Ligne, Mélanges vol 24 p 67 Prince de Ligne to JII April 1788. RGADA 5.85.2.25, CII to GAP 19 November 1786.

3 Masson p 111.

4 RGVIA 52.2.22.90–103, Prince N. I. Repnin to GAP July–August 1791. RGADA 5.85.2.296, CII to GAP 12 August 1791, Tsarskeo Selo. SIRIO 29: 220, A. A. Bezborodko to P. V. Zavadovsky 17 November 1791. Engelhardt 1997 p 94. SIRIO 23 (1878): 553, CII to Baron F. M. Grimm 27 August 1791.

5 PRO FO Secretary of State: State Papers, Foreign, cyphers SP106/67, Charles Whitworth to Lord Grenville 5 August 1791, St Petersburg, unpublished. Samoilov col 1555 and notes 1 and 2, plus cols 1556–7.

6 RGADA 1.1/1.43.97, L 464, GAP to CII 4 August 1791, Olviopol. RGADA 5.85.2.296, L 465, CII to GAP 12 August 1791.

7 This was Mrs Maria Guthrie’s expression ten years later for the feverish sicknesses of the rivers around the Black Sea: letter 23 p 111. SIRIO 29: 121, Bezborodko on GAP’s breaking of talks in August 1791.

8 Samoilov col 1557.

9 AKV 8:37, Count F. V. Rostopchin to Count S. R. Vorontsov 7 October 1791. Samoilov col 1555. RGADA 1.1/1.43.100, L 465, GAP to CII 15 August 1791, Galatz. Stedingk p 197, J. J. Jennings to Fronce ud, St Petersburg.

10 RGVIA 52.2.38.18, V. S. Popov to Bezborodko 24 August 1791. RGADA 1.1/1.43.104, GAP to CII 24 August 1791. RGADA 5.85.2.298, L 466, CII to GAP 28 August 1791. Khrapovitsky 28 and 29 August 1791. AAE 20: 358, Langeron, ‘Evénements 1791’. RV (1841) vol 8 p 372, GAP to Repnin August 1791.

11 RGADA 1.1/1.43.106, L 468, GAP to CII 6 September 1791, Jassy. RGADA 5.85.2.302, CII to GAP 4 September 1791, St Petersburg. RGVIA 52.2.38.22, Popov to Bezborodko 6 September 1791.

12 RGVIA 52.2.89.95, C. S. Czernisen (?) to Popov ‘to tell the Marshal’ 9 September 1791, unpublished.

13 RGVIA 52.2.68.50, GAP to Comte de Potocki Grand Maître d’Artilleries ud, 4 September? 1791, and RGVIA 52.11.71.16, GAP to Comte Rzewewski ud, 4 September 1791, both from Jassy, both unpublished. Zamoyski, Last King of Poland p 357. SBVIM vol 8 p 254, GAP’s reports on the negotiations with the Vizier and return of the Sebastopol Fleet 29 August 1791.

14 For example, RGVIA 52.2.89.162, Chevalier Second to GAP 25 June/6 July 1791, Le Hague, on the settlement of a ‘New Marseilles’ of French settlers. RGVIA 52.2.89.165, GAP to Comte de Kahlenberg 29 August/9 September 1791 on supplying timber contracts for shipbuilding. All unpublished.

15 ‘Canon to the Saviour’ quoted in Lopatin, Potemkin i Suvorov p 239.

16 Vassilchikov vol 3 p 122, Count Andrei Razumovsky to GAP 15 September 1791, Vienna. RGVIA 52.2.89.166, GAP to Sénac de Meilhan 27 August 1791. RGVIA 271.1.65.1, Sénac de Meilhan to GAP 6 August 1791, Moscow. Both unpublished.

17 AKV 8: 43, Rostopchin to S. R. Vorontsov 25 December 1791, Jassy.

18 RGADA 5.85.2.303, L 468, CII to GAP 16 September 1791. Popov’s reports to CII on GAP’s illness are the main source for this account of his demise unless otherwise ascribed: RGVIA 52.2.94.3–26 and RA (1878) 1 pp 20–5.

19 Popov 6–25 September 1791. AKV 25: 467, CII to Countess A. V. Branicka 16 September 1791.

20 RGADA 1.1/1.43.103, L 468, GAP to CII 16 September 1791. Popov 16 September 1791.

21 RGVIA 52.2.37.255, GAP to Bezborodko 16 September 1791. Popov 16 September 1791. RGVIA 52.2.55.253, 247 and 268, reports from Vienna on GAP and peace talks 21, 17 and 28 September NS 1791, unpublished.

22 RGADA 1.1/1.43.7, L 469, and RGVIA 52.2.22.187, L 469, GAP to CII 21 September 1791. Popov 21 September 1791. RGVIA 52.2.37.257, GAP to Bezborodko.

23 AAE 20: 358, 360–2, Langeron, ‘Evénements 1791’. Castera vol 3 p 323. Samoilov col 1557. Popov 25 September 1791.

24 Popov 25 September 1791, Metropolitan Iona’s report, originally in Georgian. ZOOID 3: 559.

25 RGADA 1.1/1.43.102, L 470, GAP to CII 27 September 1791. Popov 27 September 1791.

26 Popov 30 September–2 October 1791. RGADA 5.85.2.304, CII to GAP 30 September 1791.

27 RGADA 1.1/1.43.9, L 470, GAP to CII 2 October 1791. Popov 2 October and 3 October 1791.

28 RGADA 5.85.1.429, L 470, CII to GAP 3 October 1791. AEB vol 25 p 467, CII to Branicka. Popov 3–4 October 1791. Khrapovitsky 3 October 1791.

EPILOGUE: LIFE AFTER DEATH

1 Author’s visits to Chizhova, Smolensk Province, Russia, September 1998, and Kherson, Ukraine, July/August 1998. Father Anatoly and V. M. Zheludov, the schoolteacher of Petrishchevo, Smolensk Province. Samoilov cols 1569 and 1560.