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 6 “The grand duke and I”: Ibid., 133

 7 “In his distress, the grand duke”: Ibid., 128

 8 “There were moments”: Ibid., 129

18. IN THE BEDROOM

 1 “It seems to me that I was good for something else”: Kaus, 101

 2 “The least rabbi of Petersburg”: Kaus, 94

19. A HOUSE COLLAPSES

 1 “Get up and get out”: Memoirs, 141

 2 “like the waves of the sea”: Ibid., 142

 3 “Immediately afterward”: Herzen, 89

 4 “That, as to my stupidity”: Memoirs, 136

 5 “To show how useless this kind of order is”: Herzen, 84

 6 “often slipped me useful … information”: Ibid.

 7 “This is from your mother”: Memoirs, 144

20. SUMMER PLEASURES

 1 “a large, stupid, clumsy girl”: Memoirs (Anthony), 132

 2 “I had the greatest freedom imaginable”: Ibid., 147

 3 “dominant passion”: Herzen, 78

 4 “On a woman’s saddle”: Ibid., 131

 5 “To tell the truth”: Memoirs, 183

 6 “She was tall”: Ibid., 181

 7 “We bit our lips”: Ibid., 182

21. DISMISSALS AT COURT

 1 “She was a living archive”: Memoirs, 164

 2 “Do not come near me!”: Ibid., 150

 3 “Last night, Count Lestocq and his wife”: Ibid.

 4 “The empress did not have the courage”: Ibid., 151

 5 “This son of a bitch”: Ibid., 140

 6 “Do you remember the time”: Ibid., 141

 7 “This is the effect”: Ibid.

 8 “So, in order not to spoil his pleasure”: Ibid., 133

 9 “only two occupations”: Ibid., 154

10 “From seven in the morning”: Ibid.

11 “One day, hear a poor dog cry”: Ibid., 159

22. MOSCOW AND THE COUNTRY

 1 “Countess Shuvalova told the empress”: Memoirs, 156

 2 “I know that. We will not speak of it”: Ibid., 157

 3 “It was the worst I have ever had”: Ibid., 160

 4 “She was mortally afraid of mice”: Ibid., 163

 5 “I rode constantly all day”: Ibid., 161

 6 “himself no enemy of wine”: Ibid., 163

 7 “He did not know what he was saying”: Ibid.

 8 “He was very cheerful”: Ibid., 161

 9 “She sat by my bed”: Ibid., 164

23. CHOGLOKOV MAKES AN ENEMY

 1 “one would have thought”: Herzen, 101

 2 “Choglokov is a conceited fool with a swollen head”: Memoirs, 165

 3 “As he could never keep”: Ibid., 167

 4 “I have never in my life felt anything like the pain”: Ibid., 170

24. A BATH BEFORE EASTER AND A COACHMAN’S WHIP

 1 “beautiful eyes”: Memoirs, 173

 2 “her wit made one forget”: Herzen, 118

 3 “seeing myself slighted”: Ibid., 120

 4 “everyone was shocked and disgusted”: Ibid.

 5 “I would like to see what she can do”: Memoirs, 174

 6 “both took leave of their senses”: Ibid.

 7 “My God!, what happened?”: Ibid., 177

 8 “Wipe your cheek”: Ibid.

 9 “You see how these women treat us”: Ibid.

25. OYSTERS AND AN ACTOR

 1 “an extraordinary passion”: Memoirs, 148

 2 “I listened to talk”: Herzen, 126

 3 “If this man or someone like him”: Ibid., 124

 4 “As ambassador, I have no instructions”: Memoirs, 192

26. READING, DANCING, AND A BETRAYAL

 1 “of a dullness that I have never seen equaled”: Herzen, 148

 2 “He was blond and foppish”: Ibid., 132

 3 “Good God, what modesty!”: Memoirs, 190

 4 “I was very glad to see him”: Ibid., 189

 5 “And so, things went no further”: Herzen, 149

 6 “The truth”: Memoirs, 181

 7 “How is this, Madame Choglokova?”: Herzen, 151

27. SALTYKOV

 1 “He was a born clown”: Memoirs, 194

 2 “a fool in every sense”: Herzen, 132

 3 “As these people”: Memoirs, 199

 4 “And your wife”: Ibid., 200

 5 “All that glitters”: Ibid.

 6 “He was twenty-six years old”: Ibid.

 7 “handsome as the dawn”: Ibid. 153 “How do you know”: Ibid., 201

 8 “his favorite subject”: Herzen, 155

 9 “I had to admit”: Memoirs, 201

10 “Yes, yes, but go away”: Ibid.

11 “He already believed himself”: Ibid., 202

12 “Sergei Saltykov and my wife”: Ibid.

13 “without something happening first”: Herzen, 158

14 “I must speak to you”: Memoirs, 208

15 “Madame Choglokova began”: Ibid.

16 “You will see”: Ibid.

17 “As soon as I had seen”: Ibid., 207

18 “a few words that would allow him”: Ibid.

19 “I know that you can see through them”: Ibid.

20 “He gave him”: Ibid., 208

21 “I must have been pregnant”: Herzen, 168

22 “When this happened”: Ibid., 169

23 “No one had ever seen”: Alexander, 45

24 “There was no furniture”: Herzen, 173

25 “He was dying just at a time”: Memoirs, 220

26 “I am certain that my husband”: Herzen, 184

28. THE BIRTH OF THE HEIR

 1 “a pillar of salt”: Memoirs, 248

 2 “Countess Shuvalova’s petticoats”: Herzen, 174

 3 “a depression”: Memoirs, 223

 4 “my troubles followed me”: Ibid.

 5 “isolated, with no company”: Herzen, 187

 6 “I had not the strength to crawl”: Ibid., 189

 7 “through excess of care”: Ibid., 192

 8 “I did not have a kopeck”: Memoirs, 228

 9 “whatever came from the empress”: Ibid.

10 “This meant that I was”: Ibid., 229

11 “I thought him beautiful”: Ibid.

12 “until I felt strong enough”: Ibid.

13 “a singular revolution in my brain”: Herzen, 196

14 “ought to be the Breviary”: Durant, 10:435