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54. THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND AND THE FIRST TURKISH WAR

 1 “a real thunderbolt for the country and for me”: Coughlan, 233

 2 “to prevent a quarter of their nation”: Gooch, 64

 3 “what does one have to endure”: Alexander, 129

 4 “at the risk of repeating myself”: Haslip, 182

 5 “I cannot keep writing to you”: Ibid.

 6 “in Poland one only has to stoop”: Anthony, 203

55. DOCTORS, SMALLPOX, AND PLAGUE

 1 “If you go to a village”: Cronin, 167

 2 “the same attention to cleanliness”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 560

 3 “I am quite sick”: Alexander, 144

 4 “It has been four years”: Ibid., 143

 5 “You couldn’t cure a flea bite”: Cronin, 169

 6 “Well done, ma’am!”: Ibid., 169

 7 “You know I am a child”: Alexander, 145

 8 “uncommon merit, beautiful, and immensely rich”: Ibid.

 9 “I am very upset”: Ibid.

10 “Having this hour learned”: Ibid.

11 “of all that I ever saw of her sex”: Cronin, 168

12 “a secret everybody knows”: Alexander, 146

13 “except for some slight uneasiness”: Ibid., 147

14 “My objective was”: Ibid.

15 “our argumentative charlatans”: Ibid., 148

16 “fine and zealous”: Reddaway, 135

17 “The famous Eighteenth Century”: Ibid.

18 “We have spent a month in circumstances”: Alexander, 158

56. THE RETURN OF “PETER THE THIRD”

 1 “freedom of the rivers”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 243

 2 “I give eternal freedom”: Oldenbourg, 299

 3 “If God permits me to reach St. Petersburg”: Kaus, 296

 4 “this godless turmoil”: Alexander, 170

 5 “The great sovereign”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 270

 6 “Whomever you represent”: Kaus, 298

 7 “a common highway robber”: Oldenbourg, 301

 8 “exploits of a brigand”: Troyat, 213

 9 “Marquis de Pugachev”: Alexander, 177

10 “this new husband who has turned up”: Haslip, 211

11 “for more than six weeks I have been obliged”: Grey, 162

12 “this motley crowd”: Alexander, 171

13 “What need is there to flog”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 249

14 “Orenburg has already been besieged”: Alexander, 171

15 “Leave the peasants”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 248

16 “the suspicion of foreigners”: Alexander, 174

17 “inhabited by all the good-for-nothings”: Ibid.

18 “Since you like hangings so much”: Ibid.

57. THE LAST DAYS OF THE “MARQUIS DE PUGACHEV”

 1 “If God gives me power over the state”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 271

 2 “Why does he call himself Tsar Peter?”: Cronin, 180

 3 “Extremely shaken”: Alexander, 176

 4 “the insolent windbag”: Ibid.

 5 “You see, my friend, that Count Panin”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 264

 6 “bad news travels faster than good”: Alexander, 177

 7 “How dare you raise your hands”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 255

 8 “infernal monster”: Oldenbourg, 302

 9 “Sir, are you master or servant?”: Alexander, 178

10 “refrain from all questioning under torture”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 267

11 “Pugachev has lived like a scoundrel:” Oldenbourg, 304

12 “Please help to inspire everyone”: Alexander, 179

13 “they wanted to break Pugachev on the wheel”: Ibid.

14 “all that has passed to eternal oblivion”: Ibid., 180

58. VASILCHIKOV

 1 “He must appear”: Kaus, 311

 2 “good looking, amiable, and a complete nonentity”: Haslip, 198

 3 “He is capable of killing me”: Oldenbourg, 310

 4 “a kind of male cocotte”: Kaus, 313

 5 “he must send Vasilchikov away”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 21

 6 “It was a random choice”: Kaus, 311

59. CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN: PASSION

 1 “If I become a general”: Soloveytchik, 43

 2 “Sir Lieutenant General and Chevalier”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 8

 3 “Any news at court?”: Soloveytchik, 67

 4 “I do not understand what has reduced him”: Ibid., 68

 5 “the state and yourself, Madam”: Ibid., 69

 6 “he had conducted himself indiscreetly”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 9

 7 “After a year spent in great sorrow”: Ibid., 9–10

 8 “I remain unmotivated by envy”: Ibid., 18

 9 “Sir Lieutenant General”: Ibid., 20

10 “Mr. Vasilchikov, the favorite”: Soloveytchik, 73

11 “The thing to do now, my sweet”: Ibid., 75

12 “I’m not surprised”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 19

13 “I don’t understand what kept you”: Ibid., 17

14 “I only ask you not to do one thing”: Ibid., 19

15 “I have parted from a certain excellent”: Soloveytchik, 78

16 “No, Grishenka”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 24

17 “There is no reason to be angry”: Ibid., 27

18 “Oh, my darling, you should be ashamed”: Ibid., 35

19 “Allow me, my precious dear”: Smith, Ibid., 78

20 “Does it appear, sir”: Soloveytchik, 101

21 “certain sacred and inalienable rights”: Montefiore, 139

22 “I kiss you and embrace you … dear husband”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 38

23 “pray come and cuddle with me”: Ibid., 40

60. POTEMKIN ASCENDING

 1 “There has been no instance”: Soloveytchik, 107