Catherine the Great

67. CRIMEAN JOURNEY AND “POTEMKIN VILLAGES”

 1 “Everything was done to deter me”: Haslip, 308

 2 “Your children belong to you”: Troyat, 271

 3 “Your latest proposal”: Rounding, 424

 4 “heavy baggage”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 569

 5 “It was a time”: Haslip, 307

 6 “One day when I was sitting”: Rounding, 429

 7 “Here, the greenery in the meadows”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 176

 8 “Avoid the prince”: Haslip, 310

 9 “the greatest genius of her age”: Ibid., 303

10 “the pleasantest company”: Ibid., 304

11 “It is odd”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 175

12 “Gentlemen, the king of Poland”: Montefiore, 365

13 “It was thirty years”: Ibid., 366

14 “They spoke little”: Haslip, 314

15 “our guest’s desire that I remain here”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 178

16 “The king bores me”: Haslip, 315

17 “The new favorite is good-looking”: Ibid., 317

18 “I performed a great deed”: Cronin, 130

19 “What a peculiar land”: Montefiore, 371

20 “the most beautiful port I have ever seen”: Ibid., 374

21 “I love you and your service”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 180

22 “How I appreciate the feelings”: Ibid., 182

23 “Between you and me, my friend”: Ibid.

68. THE SECOND TURKISH WAR AND THE DEATH OF POTEMKIN

 1 “You are impatient”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 398

 2 “Children, I forbid you”: Soloveytchik, 301

 3 “I will try to get it cheaply”: Ibid., 308

 4 “You cannot capture a fortress”: Ibid.

 5 “My dear friend, you alone mean more to me”: Ibid.

 6 “May the Prince Gregory Alexandrovich”: Ibid., 309

 7 “Hurry up, my dear friend”: Ibid.

 8 “If Izmail resists”: Montefiore, 450

 9 “this insane note … Sir John Falstaff”: Alexander, 270

10 “breastplate”: Haslip, 346

11 “We have pulled one paw out”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 414

12 “I here behold a Commander in Chief”: Ibid., 314

13 “Has your ship struck”: Morison, 230

14 “Paul Jones has just arrived: Ibid., 364

15 “I was entirely captivated”: Ibid.

16 “It is to you alone”: Montefiore, 400

17 “Our victory is complete”: Ibid.

18 “I hope to be subjected”: Morison, 382

19 “nobody wished to serve:: Ibid., 384

20 “She then indulged”: Ibid., 387

21 “The charge against me is an unworthy”: Ibid., 388

22 “The accusation against me is false”: Ibid. 513 “Paul Jones is no more guilty than I”: Montefiore, 421

23 “I must pull out the tooth”: Soloveytchik, 326

24 “When one looks at the Prince-Marshal Potemkin”: Ibid., 327

25 “The child sends his greetings”: Ibid., 335

26 “I could not remove him from my path”: Montefiore, 478

27 “Please send me a Chinese dressing gown”: Ibid., 338

28 “the first pianist and one of the best composers”: Montefiore, 482

29 “Take that which”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 389

30 “I’m not going to recover”: Soloveytchik, 340

31 “Tell me frankly”: Ibid.

32 “Good hands”: Ibid., 341

33 “Matushka, oh how sick I am!”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 390

34 “I have no more strength”: Ibid., 390

35 “This will be enough”: Soloveytchik, 342

36 “the prince is no longer on this earth”: Ibid., 343

37 “Now I have no one left”: Ibid.

69. ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE BRONZE HORSEMAN

 1 “The Walpole paintings are no longer to be had”: Descargues, 42

 2 “The Comte de Baudoin leaves it”: Ibid., 44

 3 “The world is a strange place”: Ibid.

 4 “We are prodigiously delighted”: Ibid.

 5 “I am a glutton”: Waliszewski, 344

 6 “You should know our mania”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 532

 7 “Now I love to distraction”: Waliszewski, 390

 8 The Captain’s Daughter appears in Yarmolinski, ed., 599–727

 9 “My posterity is Your Majesty”: Waliszewski, 341 529 “What a charming picture”: Descargues, 26

10 “My paintings are beautiful”: Ibid., 29

11 “They have not made, as I have”: Rounding, 221

12 “There is an old song”: Ibid., 222

13 “I hear only praise”: Ibid.

14 “in general, everyone is very happy”: Ibid.

15 “You will choose honest and reasonable people”: Waliszewski, 350

16 The lines from Pushkin’s “The Bronze Horseman” are cited in Yarmolinski, ed., 106–107

70. “THEY ARE CAPABLE OF HANGING THEIR KING FROM A LAMPPOST!”

 1 “to God and the country never to be separated”: Schama, 359

 2 “Go tell those who have sent you”: Schama, 363

 3 “null, illegal, and unconstitutional”: Winik, 124

 4 “I fear that the greatest obstacle”: Gooch, 103

 5 “French, Russians, Danes”: Madariaga, Catherine, 189

 6 “I cannot believe in the superior talents”: Gooch, 99

 7 “They are capable of hanging their king”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 421

 8 “Above all, I hope”: Gooch, 99

 9 “I am sad to see you go”: Haslip, 341

10 “I am afraid so, Madame”: Ibid.

11 “the Hydra with twelve hundred heads”: Waliszewski, 351

12 “only people who set in motion a machine”: Gooch, 100

13 “Tell a thousand people to draft a letter”: Cronin, 269