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 8 “my mother’s behavior”: Memoirs, 64

 9 “I had become as thin as a skeleton”: Memoirs, 65

10 “My Lord, I make so bold”: Oldenbourg, 68

11 “Our good prince”: Kaus, 58

12 “I have had more trouble”: Ibid., 59

8. INTERCEPTED LETTERS

 1 “If the empress would give”: Kaus, 50

 2 “frivolous, indolent, running to fat”: Haslip, 34

 3 “This horseplay will stop”: Herzen, 29

 4 “If your mother has done something wrong”: Memoirs, 66

9. CONVERSION AND BETROTHAL

 1 “She slept soundly”: Oldenbourg, 74

 2 “I thought she was lovely”: Ibid., 75

 3 “The forehead, eyes, neck, throat”: Ibid., 76

 4 “I had learned it by heart”: Anthony, 84

 5 “Her bearing … through the entire ceremony”: Ibid.

 6 “real little monsters, both of them”: Oldenbourg, 77

 7 “The ceremony lasted four hours”: Ibid., 78

 8 “Our situation is the same”: Ibid. 64 “one was almost suffocated”: Memoirs, 71

 9 “My daughter conducts herself”: Oldenbourg, 79

10 “There was not a day”: Memoirs, 72

11 “I know that Your Highness has sent my brother”: Kaus, 65

12 “use my influence”: Memoirs, 72

10. A PILGRIMAGE TO KIEV AND TRANSVESTITE BALLS

 1 “pedagogues”: Memoirs, 73

 2 “got into ours”: Ibid., 74

 3 “We allowed only the most amusing”: Ibid.

 4 “While we were enjoying ourselves”: Ibid.

 5 “Knowing how easily excited”: Ibid., 75

 6 “When my mother was in a temper”: Ibid.

 7 “In truth, at that time”: Ibid.

 8 “Never in my whole life”: Ibid., 76

 9 “I was afraid of not being liked”: Ibid., 77

10 “My respect for the empress”: Ibid.

11 “I must say”: Ibid., 78

12 “The very tall Monsieur Sievers”: Ibid.

13 “washed her hands”: Ibid., 79

11. SMALLPOX

 1 “uncontrollable in his whims”: Ibid., 82

 2 “he confided his childish pranks”: Ibid.

 3 “and was on such bad terms”: Ibid., 84

 4 “was very much to my liking”: Ibid.

 5 “she ordered me to go”: Ibid., 91

 6 “Your Highness, my very dear niece”: Troyat, 39

 7 “He was a man of great intelligence”: Memoirs, 85

 8 “I read his remarks again”: Ibid., 86

 9 “What a pity”: Ibid., 86, footnote

10 “semi-darkness”: Ibid.

11 “almost with terror”: Ibid.

12 “he came up to me”: Kaus, 79

12. MARRIAGE

 1 “About as discreet as a cannon ball”: Memoirs, 88

 2 “All the attention”: Ibid., 92

 3 “We spent our time walking”: Ibid. 93

 4 “As my wedding day came nearer”: Ibid., 97

 5 “severely scolded”: Ibid.

 6 “We had a long, friendly talk”: Ibid., 97

 7 “Her silver brocade wedding gown”: Oldenbourg, 95

 8 “The procession infinitely surpasses”: Kaus, 85

 9 “horribly heavy”: Memoirs, 98

10 “I begged the Princess of Hesse”: Ibid., 99

11 “I remained alone”: Ibid.

12 “How it would amuse my servants”: Ibid.

13 “And matters remained in this state”: Kaus, 86

14 “There was not a single man” Memoirs, 100

15 “The following day”: Ibid.

16 “My dear husband”: Ibid., 100

17 “I would have been ready”: Ibid., 101

18 “was the gayest marriage”: Kaus, 85

13. JOHANNA GOES HOME

 1 “Since my marriage”: Memoirs, 101

 2 “At that time I would have given much”: Ibid., 102

 3 “Our farewell was very loving”: Kaus, 89

 4 “When the princess took leave”: Ibid.

 5 “not to make me any sadder”: Anthony, 102

 6 “I consider it necessary”: Kaus, 90

14. THE ZHUKOVA AFFAIR

 1 “From that moment on”: Herzen, 46

 2 “I thought I would faint”: Memoirs, 10

 3 “feared that I had grown”: Ibid.

 4 “My mother did not know Russian”: Ibid., 104

 5 “Through my servants”: Ibid., 105

 6 “It is difficult to find an explanation”: Ibid.

 7 “As for the previous dress”: Ibid., 149

15. PEEPHOLES

 1 “on the empress’s behalf”: Ibid., 106

 2 “It seemed strange to us”: Ibid.,

 3 “satisfied and pleased with me”: Ibid., 107

 4 “I fear he may fall in love”: Ibid., 104

 5 “At last my wish is fulfilled”: Kaus, 84

 6 “this might serve his purposes”: Memoirs, 112

 7 “He did not tell us what it was”: Ibid., 109

 8 “a disrespectful little boy”: Ibid., 110

 9 “let fly at him”: Ibid.

10 “We were dumfounded”: Ibid.

11 “She was like a Fury”: Ibid., 111

12 “One must admit”: Ibid

13 “We beg your pardon, Mama”: Ibid.

14 “had a great liking for the bottle”: Ibid., 112

15 “Your Highness should bear in mind”: Ibid., 116

16 “You talk and think of nothing”: Ibid.

17 “I cannot speak to you like this”: Ibid., 117

18 “The grand duke is asking for you”: Ibid.

19 “No, my father”: Ibid., 123

16. A WATCHDOG

 1 “Her Highness has been selected”: Oldenbourg, 110

 2 “In the two years I had been in Russia”: Memoirs, 113

 3 “Now, as I was married”: Herzen, 66

 4 “I know quite well”: Memoirs, 114

 5 “I could not save myself by flight”: Ibid.

 6 “such talk would displease the empress”: Ibid., 119

 7 “In those days”: Ibid., 123

 8 “Never did two minds resemble each other less”: Ibid., 129

17. “HE WAS NOT A KING”

 1 “your father was not a king”: Ibid., 130

 2 “Apparently, my words carried conviction”: Ibid.

 3 “This was a dreadful blow for us”: Ibid., 127

 4 “Within a few days”: Ibid., 128

 5 “a gentle, reasonable man”: Ibid.