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and Nevsky 246
Swedish fleet 290, 293
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels 199
Synodal Palace, Moscow 9
T
Tacitus: Annals 101
Taininskoye 151, 160
Talyzin, Admiral Ivan 14, 124
Tamerlane 237
Tames, John 9
Tatars 17, 167, 168, 174, 246
Tatishchevo 233
Tauride Palace, St Petersburg 46, 299–300, 304, 305–6, 311
Gobelins Room 299
Winter Garden 300, 305
converted into stables 320
Tauride province 263–4, 280
Teplov, Grigory 9, 125, 130, 132, 212
supervision of Kiriil Razumovsky’s education 131
translates Araja libretti 131
drafts C’s early edicts 131
Commission on Church Lands 131
Imperial Assembly secretary 133
‘theatres of piety’ 54
Theodore I, king of Corsica 93
Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) 24
Three Bishops (ship) 202 ‘thunder-rock’ 204–5 Times, The 166, 289
Titian: Danaë 193
Todorsky, Archimandrite Simon 51, 60
Tooke, William 123, 299–300
Torre, M. de la 257
Torzhok 272, 273
monastery of Boris and Gleb 273–4
Transfiguration, Cathedral of the, St Petersburg 45
Treasury (British) 98
Treasury (Russian) 308
Trezzini, Domenico 42, 151
Trinity Cathedral, St Petersburg 246–7, 294, 315
Trinity Lavra 79, 170
Trinity St Sergius monastery 49, 51, 67, 85, 124, 150–51, 239 ‘Triumphant Minerva’ (street pageant) 22
Tronchin, François 193
Troppau, capture of (1758) 114
Troshchinsky, Dimitry 311
Trubetskaya, Princess Yevdokiya 190, 230
Trubetskoy, Prince Nikita 116, 121
C’s wedding 62
and C’s coronation 7, 8, 9, 13, 21
Trubetskoy family 14
Tsar Boris’s Ponds 127, 170
Tsaritsyn 236
Tsaritsyno 276, 326
Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg 15, 46, 55, 69, 72, 76, 79, 82, 95, 100, 108, 109, 126, 137, 177, 178, 189, 192, 193, 197, 205, 209, 210, 215, 216, 219, 220, 223, 229, 230, 233–4, 243, 249, 250, 258, 261, 264, 266, 267, 268, 274, 278, 281, 289, 293, 304, 305, 312, 314, 322, 323
Picture Gallery 220
redesign of (Charles Cameron) 258–9
Lyon room 259
Chinese room 259
Arabesque room 259, 294
C’s study 259
bronze doors for C’s bedroom 262–3
Cameron Gallery 299
C’s library 306
Tula 288
Turchaninov, Peter 312
Turgenev, Alexander 325, 328
Turgenev, Nikolay 325
Turin: royal library 142
Turkish navy 202–3
Tuscany 254
Tver 158, 159, 160, 162, 166, 273, 322
Tver (C’s galley) 161, 162, 164
Tver province 240, 275
U
Ufa 230
Uglich 161
Ukhtomsky, F.F. 150
Ukraine see Little Russia Ulrich, Duke Anton 29
Ural mountains 228, 233, 235
urban government 271
Utkin, Nikolay: Lady with a dog 323
V
Valeriani, Giuseppe 76, 141
Vallin de la Mothe, Jean Baptiste 136–7, 138, 191
Vanbrugh, Sir John 138–9
Varel, Oldenbourg 34
Varennes 301
Vasilchikov, Alexander 230
C’s new favourite 216, 217
no substitute for Grigory Orlov 218
C’s boredom with him 225, 232
supplanted by Grigory Potëmkin 229, 232
Vasilevsky Island, St Petersburg 44, 211
Vechelde, palace of, near Brunswick 29
Veilly, Jean-Louis de 15, 21
Veldten, Georg 137, 138, 191, 258
Velë 265, 278
Venice 254
Venturi, Franco 196
Verdi, Giuseppe: Un ballo in maschera 308
Verela 294
Vernet, Pastor Jacob 141
Versailles 29–33, 57, 76, 94, 147, 193, 288
Vicenza 279
Vienna 207, 254, 262, 270
Imperial Court 33
Virgil: Aeneid 294
Virgin of Kazan 60
Vladimir, Prince 54
Vladimir, St 285
Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke 332
Vladislavova, Praskovya 13, 99
Voice, The (newspaper) 331
Volga River 155, 158–61, 163, 166, 168
Volkonsky, Prince 213
Volkov, Dimitry 99, 118–19, 134, 162, 171
Volkov, Fëdor 22
Voltaire 67, 68, 93, 109, 152, 222, 224, 239, 295, 310
correspondence with C see under Catherine II the Great
Huber’s cycle of portraits 193
bust commissioned by C 261
death 261
Anecdotes on Peter the Great 77
Candide 191
Vorobëvo 80
Voronezh 278
Vorontsov, Count Alexander 89, 96, 107, 134, 268, 270, 282, 287, 290, 292
Vorontsov, Chancellor Count Mikhail 62, 73, 94, 96, 97, 106–7, 111, 114, 133, 142
Vorontsov, Count Roman Larionovich 119
Vorontsov, Count Semën 134, 182, 235, 270, 298
Vorontsov family 105, 106, 113, 114, 134, 281
Vorontsov Palace, St Petersburg 95, 295
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Katlovna 15, 18, 21, 74, 109–13, 118
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Mikhailovka 74, 109–13, 142–3
Vorontsova, Elizabeth 16, 92, 104, 110, 115, 124
Votiaks 168
Voulgaris, Eugenios 294, 304
Vyazemsky, Prince Alexander 134, 233, 237, 274, 285, 306, 308, 333
Vyazemsky, Prince Peter 327
Vyborg 293
Vyshny Volochëk 272, 275
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Wagner, Pastor Friedrich 26–7, 28
Wailly, Charles de 288
Wallachia 203, 229
Walpole, George, 3rd earl 261
Walpole, Horace 241, 261, 308–9
Walpole, Sir Robert 261
War of American Independence (1775–83) 263
Warsaw 219, 301, 309, 311
Washington, George 275
Watteau, Antoine 193, 304
Wedgwood, Josiah 261
Weimar Republic 33
Weitbrecht, Johann 310
Westminster Abbey, London 16
Whately, Thomas: Observations on Modern Gardening 210
Whitworth, Charles 323
Wilkes, John 261
Wilmot, Catherine 321, 323
Wilmot, Martha 321, 322, 323
Winter Annenhof (later Golovin Palace), Moscow 47
Winter Palace, St Petersburg 45, 55–6, 58, 60, 66, 79, 278
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (stone) 95, 119–20, 121, 123, 130, 135, 136–9, 181, 189, 200, 221, 225, 265, 269, 280, 299, 302, 315
Amber Room 83, 231
Chevalier Gardes’ Room 132, 137, 318
Portrait Room 137
Diamond Room 138, 232, 315
Mirror Room 138
library 138
massive proportions 138
audience chamber 141
Orlov’s rooms above C’s 145
theatre 146
extravagant masquerade (1770) 205
Potëmkin’s apartments 233
and Sophia’s reception in Russia 245
great flood of 1 777 258
Constantine’s apartments 313
St George’s Hall 315
and C’s death 316, 317–19
Grand Gallery 318
requiem service for Peter III 319
loss of interiors in great fire of 1 837 138
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (temporary wooden structure) 95, 112, 113, 115, 147
Wolff, Jacob 97–8 ‘World of Art’ group 331
Wörlitz 32
Wortman, Richard 332
Wouvermans, Philip 193
Wraxall, Nathaniel 214, 235
Württemberg, Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of 31
Württemberg, Frederick, Prince of 281
Württemberg, Zelmira, Princess of (Princess Auguste of Brunswick) 281
Y
Yaik Cossack host 228
Yakovlev, Savva 127, 163
Yakubovsky, Ivan 316
Yaroslavl 163–4, 165
Yauza River 10
Yekaterinburg, Siberia 209
Yekaterinburg fortress 84, 94
Yekaterinhof suburban palace 68, 82, 83, 234
Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) 280, 304, 311
Yekaterintal Palace, Reval 204
Yelagin, Ivan 130, 135, 165, 171, 178, 195, 234, 235, 333
a lifelong servant of C’s 131
arrested with Bestuzhev 132
connection with English Masonic lodges 132
and the Imperial theatres 148
Yenikale 239
Yermolov, Lieutenant Alexander 272, 274
relationship with C 270–71
the ‘white negro’ 270
rapid downfall 270
inveigled into an intrigue against Potëmkin 270
dismissed and sent abroad 270
extended ‘retirement’ 270
Yeropkin, Senator Peter 44, 206–7, 208
Yevreinov, Timofey 66, 99
Yorke, Charles 93
Young Court 65, 66, 69–70, 79, 90, 105, 133, 140, 141, 143, 178, 219, 222, 303
Yusupov, Nikolay 321
Z
Zagryazhskaya, Natalia 328
Zaporozhian Cossacks 9, 238
Zatrapezny, Ivan 163
Zavadovsky, Peter 270, 278, 281, 282–3, 290, 324
relationship with C 28, 241, 242–3
promoted to major general 242
temporary retirement to Lyalichi 243
long career at Court 243
Commission of National Schools 248
and the Russo-Swedish War 293
and the second Russo-Turkish War 294
and Poland’s third partition 309–10
Zemtsov, Mikhail 44, 60
Zerbst, family seat at 24, 28, 33–6, 66, 106
Zherebstova, Olga 322–3
Zhurzha (now Giurgiu, Romania) 208
Zimmerman, Dr Johann 277, 280, 283, 321
Solitude considered with respect to its influence on the mind and the heart
271
Zips (Spisz) 207
Znamenskoye 127
Zorich, Semën 243, 251–2
Zorin, Andrey 297
Zorndorf, battle of (1758) 112
Zosima, Abbot 165
Zubov, Count Nikolay 315
Zubov, Platon 291, 294, 295, 300, 301, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 316, 322
Zubov, Valerian 296
Zwinger complex, Dresden 33
About the Author
SIMON DIXON is professor of modern history and chairman of the School of History at the University of Leeds in England. He specializes in the history of imperial Russia, with particular focus on the eighteenth century and the Russian Orthodox Church. He is regularly invited to lecture on Russian culture to general audiences around the world and in the United States.
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