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Catherine the Great

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by Simon Dixon


  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

  W

  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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  Jacket design by Allison Saltzman

  Jacket art: Portrait of Catherine II of Russia

  Courtesy of Château De Versailles, France/Giraudon/the Bridgeman art Library

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