Catherine the Great

 2 “Do you remember how”: Ibid., 110

 3 “I have noticed that your mother”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 61

 4 “On Sunday, I happened to be seated”: Soloveytchik, 112

 5 “As long as my bed remains”: Ibid., 119

 6 “If there are no mistakes”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 50

 7 “This is really too much!”: Soloveytchik, 131

 8 “It is a hundred years”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 55

 9 “The rebellion in a great part”: Soloveytchik, 143

61. CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN: SEPARATION

 1 “My dear friend, I don’t know why”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 51

 2 “Your long letter and stories”: Ibid., 57

 3 “You were in a mood to quarrel”: Ibid., 67

 4 “Precious darling”: Ibid.

 5 “I wrote you a letter”: Ibid., 75

 6 “Do me this one favor”: Ibid., 77

 7 “Such rage ought to be expected”: Ibid., 80

 8 “My Lord and Dear Husband!”: Ibid., 77

 9 “Should you not find pleasure”: Ibid., 81

10 “May God forgive you”: Ibid., 82

11 “Your Most Gracious Majesty”: Ibid., 83

12 “I read your letter”: Ibid., 84

13 “To present this comedy to society”: Ibid., 85

14 “Matushka, here is the result”: Ibid.

15 “Your foolish acts remain the same”: Ibid., 68

16 “Listening to you talk sometimes”: Ibid., 74

17 “God knows I don’t intend”: Ibid., 87

18 “Your Most Gracious Majesty”: Ibid.

19 “You know, Madam, I am your slave”: Soloveytchik, 195

62. NEW RELATIONSHIPS

 1 “My husband has written me”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 76

 2 “You ask for Zavadovsky’s removal”: Ibid., 85

 3 “Varinka, I love you”: Soloveytchik, 167

 4 “Listen, my dearest, Varinka is very sick”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 96

 5 “What’s the use of all this?”: Soloveytchik, 170

 6 “Would it not be charming”: Anthony, 315

63. FAVORITES

 1 “with the greatest dignity”: Coughlan, 294

 2 “Last night I was in love with him”: Haslip, 257

 3 “Pyrrhus, king of Epirus”: Kaus, 326,

 4 “Big books at the bottom”: Cronin, 256

 5 “changed his original common name”: Haslip, 261

 6 “kind, gay, honest”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 354

 7 “compared to the others, he was an angel”: Haslip, 288

 8 “they helped, but I could not endure”: Alexander, 217

 9 “I am plunged into the most profound grief”: Ibid., 216

10 “From Catherine to my dearest friend”: Haslip, 290

11 “I am once more inwardly calm”: Ibid., 292

12 “You cur, you monkey”: Ibid., 299

13 “Either he or I must go!”: Ibid.

14 “They slept until nine o’clock”: Alexander, 218

15 “We are as clever”: Coughlan, 295

16 “Sasha is beyond price”: Haslip, 305

17 “stifling”: Ibid., 306

18 “It is your duty to remain”: Ibid., 330

19 “cold and preoccupied”: Alexander, 219

20 “a girl most ordinary”: Ibid., 220

21 “God grant them happiness”: Gooch, 51

22 “I have never been”: Alexander, 222

23 “constantly tortures my soul”: Ibid.

64. CATHERINE, PAUL, AND NATALIA

 1 “We have never had a jollier time”: Gooch, 26

 2 “I return to town on Tuesday”: Ibid.

 3 “Everything is done to excess”: Alexander, 227

 4 “The grand duke”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 58

 5 “Her friends are, with reason”: Alexander, 228

 6 “Never in my life”: Ibid.

 7 “For three days”: Haslip, 239

 8 “perfectly formed boy”: Alexander, 229

 9 I have wasted no time”: Troyat, 232

10 “since it has been proven”: Ibid., 231

65. PAUL, MARIA, AND THE SUCCESSION

 1 “I hope that in time”: Ibid., 231

 2 “Nothing can exceed”: Gooch, 29

 3 “The grand duke is exceedingly amiable”: Ibid.

 4 “my daughter.… Be assured”: Alexander, 232

 5 “We shall have her here”: Anthony, 277

 6 “My son has returned”: Alexander, 233.

 7 “I swear to love and adore you”: Troyat, 234

 8 “This dear husband is an angel”: Gooch, 30

 9 “Wherever she goes”: Ibid.

10 “had been given a map of Europe”: Haslip, 285

11 “whether his Polish majesty”: Ibid., 286

12 “prefers stewed fruit”: Ibid.

13 “an ardent and impetuous man”: Waliszewski, 403

14 “The grand duke is greatly undervalued”: Gooch, 30

15 “When they admitted me”: Ibid., 32

16 “He combined plenty of intelligence”: Ibid., 33

17 “You tax me with my hypochondria”: Anthony, 287

18 “Permit me to write you often”: Ibid.

19 “One cannot see everything”: Troyat, 323

20 “I told you that your request”: Gooch, 27

21 “I shall be separated”: Gooch, 34

22 “There is no one”: Anthony, 288

23 “I see into what hands”: Gooch, 35

24 “I hope not in the time of M. Alexander”: Ibid., 36

66. POTEMKIN: BUILDER AND DIPLOMAT

 1 “Is that a soldier’s business?”: Soloveytchik, 177

 2 “such a mixture of wit”: Ibid., 221

 3 “She had the strongest desire to help us”: Ibid., 201

 4 “You have chosen an unlucky moment”: Ibid., 212

 5 “The interest I take in everything”: Ibid., 216

 6 “Flatter her as much as you can”: Ibid., 225

 7 “You can demand of us”: Ibid.

 8 The dialogue between Potemkin and Harris regarding an Anglo-Russian alliance is drawn from Soloveytchik, 227–45

 9 “La mariée est trop belle”: Ibid., 234

10 “The acquisition of the Crimea”: Soloveytchik, 180