Terrible Tsarinas

Tocqué (Louis) — 184

gust) — 201-3, 210-11, 218, 220, 225

Todorsky (Father Simon ) — 136, 146,

Praskovya Ivanovna (Grand Duch-

165

ess) — 65

Tolstoy (Count Peter) — 5, 8, 12, 17, 27-

Prokopovich (Archbishop Feofan) — 18,

29, 35

56, 66

Totleben (General) — 227

Rambour (M.) — 144

Trediakov — 187

Rastrelli (Bartolomeo Francesco) —

Trediakovsky (Vasily) — 81, 84, 188

184, 232

Trubetskoy (Prince Nikita) — 78, 128-

Razumovsky (Alexis) — 105, 111-12, 132,

30,

153-56, 164, 178, 181-84, 216-225, 231

Razumovsky (Natalya Demianovna) — Urfé (Honoré d’) — 194

154

Usson d’Allion (M. d’) — 149, 160

Repnin (Prince Nikita) — 5, 8, 12, 179

Rochambeau — 139

Villebois (Captain) — 6, 14

Rombach — 180

Vladimir II Monomakh — 14

Rumiantsev (General) — 230

Vladislavov (Miss) — 195, 202, 212

< 244 >

Index

Volkonsky (Nikita Fyodorovich) — 81

Volkov (Fyodor Grigorievich) — 186

Walpole (Horace) — 202

Voltaire — 183, 187, 201

Williams (Charles Hambury) — 201,

Volynsky (Artyom) — 83

202, 220

Vorontsov (Elizabeth) — 209, 236

Wolf (Christian von) — 187

Vorontsov (Prince Mikhail) — 106, 112, Yaguzhinsky (Paul) — 78, 157

131, 132, 204, 211, 218-19, 225

Yefimovsky (family) — 140

< 245 >

THE ROMANOV DYNASTY

Mikhail (1596–1645)

Tsar from 1613 to 1645)

m. 1624 Princess Maria Dolgoruky († 1625),

Then m. 1626 Eudoxia Streshchev (1608–1645)

Alexis, called the Peaceful Tsar (1629-1676)

Tsar from 1645 to 1676

M. 1648 Maria Miloslawskievna (1629-1669),

Then m. 1671 Natalya Naryshkin (1651-1694)

From the first marriage: From the second marriage: Fyodor III (1661-1682) Sophia (1657-1704) Ivan V, called the Simple Peter I, called the Great Tsar from 1676 to 1682 Regent from 1682 to 1689, (1666-1696) (1672-1725) m. in 1680 then retired to a convent Tsar from 1682 to 1696 Tsar from 1682 to 1725

Agrafiya Gruchevsky with Peter the Great m. in 1689

(1665-1681), m. in 1684 Eudoxia Lapukhin then in 1682 Marfa Apraxin Praskovya Soltikov (1682-1727), (1664-1716) (1664-1723) then in 1707

Catherine Skavronska

Ilya, b. and d. 1681 (future Catherine I) (from the first marriage) Empress from 1725-1727

Catherine (1691-1733) Anna Ivanovna Praskovya (1694-1731) m. in 1716 (1693-1740) m. Ivan Marmonov Charles Leopold Tsarina from 1730 to 1740

of Mecklenburg m. in 1710

(1678-1747) Duke Frederick William

of Courland (1692-1711)

Anna Leopoldovna

(1718-1746) From the first marriage: From the second marriage: m. in 1739 Alexis (1690-1718) Anna Petrovna Elizabeth Petrovna Anthony Ulrich Tsarevich (1708-1728) (1709-1762) of Brunswick (1714-1774) m. Charlotte m. in 1725 Empress from 1741 to 1762

Regent 1740-1741 of Brunswick Duke Charles Frederick m. 1742 (in secret) (1694-1715) of Holstein-Gottorp Alexis Razumovsky (1709-1771)

Ivan VI (1740-1764)

Tsar from 1740 to 1741

Peter II (1715-1730) Peter III (1728-1762)

Tsar from 1727 to 1730 né Charles Peter Ulrich

of Holstein-Gottorp

Tsar in 1762

m. in 1745

Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-1796),

future Catherine II, called the Great,

Empress from 1762 to 1796

Document Outline

CONTENTS

I CATHERINE SHOWS THE WAY

II CATHERINE’S REIGN: A FLASH OF FLAMBOYANCE

III MACHINATIONS AROUND THE THRONE

IV THE SURPRISE ACCESSION OF ANNA IVANOVNA

V THE EXTRAVAGANT ANNA

VI ONE ANNA AFTER ANOTHER

VII ELIZABETH’S TRIUMPH

VIII AN AUTOCRAT AT WORK AND PLAY

IX ELIZABETHAN RUSSIA

X HER MAJESTY AND THEIR IMPERIAL HIGHNESSES

XI ANOTHER CATHERINE!

INDEX

THE ROMANOV DYNASTY