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14 “the cause of the king of France”: This summary of Catherine’s memorandum is based on Lariviere, 101 ff.

15 “an exemplary and unforgettable act”: Schama, 612

16 “a scum of criminals vomited”: Loomis, 75

17 “I don’t give a damn about the prisoners”: Schama, 633

18 “to protect the republic”: Thompson, 258–9

19 “the foulest and most atrocious act”: Schama, 687

20 “The revolution has no need”: Loomis, 335

21 “Madame, we must go now”: Ibid., 333

22 “The mechanism falls like thunder”: Schama, 621

23 “immediately after the decapitation”: www.guillotine.dk/Pages/30sek/html.

71. DISSENT IN RUSSIA, FINAL PARTITION OF POLAND

 1 “Likely to corrupt morals”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 546

 2 “beastly purpose”: Radishchev, 96

 3 “breaks the head”: Ibid., 97

 4 “Do you know, dear fellow citizens”: Ibid., 153

 5 “has learning enough”: Ibid., 239

 6 “hence the suspicion falls on M. Radishchev”: Ibid., 241

 7 “the purpose of this book is clear”: Ibid., 239

 8 “a rabble-rouser, worse than Pugachev”: Ibid., 11

 9 “I’ve read the book you sent me”: Montefiore, 440

10 “Now I am my own master”: Radishchev, 19

11 “will oppose us with only”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 430

12 “exterminate that nest of Jacobins”: Haslip, 353

13 “I am breaking my head”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 428

14 “Apparently you ignore”: Ibid., “435

15 “soldiers of Her Imperial Majesty”: Haslip, 356

16 “Does the Diet authorize”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 439

17 “Silence means consent”: Ibid. 557 “a Russian province”: Ibid., 440

18 “the whole of Praga”: Ibid., 446

72. TWILIGHT

 1 “You probably don’t need this contrivance”: Cronin, 289

 2 “are you not ashamed of yourself?”: Waliszewski, 376

 3 “let me march against the French!”: Kaus, 376

 4 “Madame, you must be gay”: Ibid., 367

 5 “Twenty years ago”: Waliszewski, 391

 6 “I have said it to you before”: Ibid., 412

 7 “It is astonishing”: Troyat, 236

 8 “If you only knew what wonders”: Kaus, 306

 9 “I am making a delicious child”: Troyat, 236

10 “He loves me instinctively”: Oldenbourg, 331

11 “It is sewn together”: Waliszewski, 413

12 “There is in my country”: Troyat, 323

13 “I didn’t know what would become of me”: Cronin, 295

14 “the grand duchess will never be troubled”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 576

15 “With the church’s blessing?”: Cronin, 296

16 “King Gustavus is not well”: Ibid., 297

17 “What I have written”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 576

18 “The fact is that the king pretended”: Memoirs (Anthony), 321

73. THE DEATH OF CATHERINE THE GREAT

 1 “The grand duke got out of his sleigh”: Cronin, 299

 2 “Gentlemen, the Empress Catherine is dead”: Ibid., 300

 3 “The subject was the unlimited power”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 580

 4 “Before I became what I am today”: Haslip, 361

 5 “HERE LIES CATHERINE”: Anthony, 325

 6 “my name is Catherine II”: Alexander, 265

 7 “Day before yesterday”: Haslip, 361

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ROBERT K. MASSIE was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography), The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, and Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea.