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15 “all day and part of the night”: Memoirs, 230

16 “constantly smoked”: Ibid.

17 “I underwent agonies”: Herzen, 197

18 “I saw as clear as day”: Memoirs, 231

19 “He knew how to conceal his faults”: Ibid., 200

20 “Has he not committed”: Alexander, 63

29. RETALIATION

 1 “I had a superb dress made”: Memoirs, 232

 2 “I treated them with profound contempt”: Herzen, 198

 3 “One day, His Imperial Highness”: Memoirs, 233

 4 “he could have saved himself”: Herzen, 201

 5 “he got nothing”: Memoirs, 234

 6 “shuddered to think”: Herzen, 203

 7 “Those accursed Germans”: Memoirs, 235

 8 “a freakish prank”: Ibid., 236

 9 “We have become the servants”: Ibid.

10 “as far away as I could”: Ibid

30. THE ENGLISH AMBASSADOR

 1 “It was not difficult to talk”: Memoirs, 239

 2 “a stumbling block”: Ibid.

 3 “nowhere are people quicker”: Ibid., 240

 4 “The empress’s health”: Kaus, 138

 5 “A man at my age”: Cronin, 105

 6 “I have some hesitation”: Troyat, 87

 7 “Whatever may be further given”: Kaus, 143

31. A DIPLOMATIC EARTHQUAKE

 1 “I have heard with pleasure”: Kaus, 144–45

32. PONIATOWSKI

 1 “An excellent education”: Haslip, 71

 2 “A severe education”: Poniatowski, 157

 3 “She was twenty-five”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 48

 4 “I cannot deny myself the pleasure”: Oldenbourg, 178

33. A DEAD RAT

 1 “You ought to go and see her”: Memoirs, 242

 2 “The evening passed”: Ibid., 243

 3 “Sometimes at the theater”: Ibid., 244,

 4 “like a servant girl”: Haslip, 76

 5 “Tell me how much you know”: Memoirs, 252

 6 “there is no worse traitor”: Ibid., 249

 7 “in the present critical and delicate”: Haslip, 82

 8 “I pressed her strongly”: Anthony, 137

34. CATHERINE CHALLENGES BROCKDORFF

 1 “They tell me he is suspected”: Memoirs, 254

 2 “If such things are done: Ibid., 249

 3 “Come to my apartment”: Ibid., 255.

 4 “Speak to the grand duchess”: Ibid.

 5 “Baba Ptitsa”: Ibid., 256

 6 “He took money from everyone”: Ibid.

 7 “Look at this devil of a fellow”: Ibid., 257

 8 “The great problem lay in the fact”: Ibid., 258

 9 “Well, you began very young”: Ibid., 259

10 “You seem to be well-informed”: Ibid., 264

11 “The weather was superb”: Ibid., 276

12 “The Grand Duchess is kindness”: Ibid., 277

13 “please the empress”: Kaus, 147

14 “The grand duke is as completely a Prussian”: Ibid., 148

15 “I love you as my father”: Cronin, 110

35. APRAKSIN’S RETREAT

 1 “a very corpulent man”: Cronin, 109

 2 “If the empress should die”:Haslip, 89

 3 “And there now remains”: Kaus, 171

36. CATHERINE’S DAUGHTER

 1 “I have no idea”: Memoirs, 280

 2 “You fool! Go back”: Ibid.

 3 “Go to the devil!”: Ibid.

 4 “It is said that the public celebrations”: Ibid., 283

 5 “only just awakened”: Ibid., 284

 6 “You should not die of hunger”: Ibid.

 7 “the grand duke’s musicians”: Ibid., 285

 8 “except for Alexander Shuvalov”: Ibid.

37. THE FALL OF BESTUZHEV

 1 “Count, I have just received a message”: Memoirs, 286

 2 “Thank God, we are going to arrest”: Ibid., 287

 3 “a loyal, honest man”: Ibid.

 4 “With a dagger in my heart”: Ibid., 288

 5 “What do all these wonderful things mean?”: Ibid.

 6 “attempting to sow discord”: Ibid., 292

 7 “You are a witness to the fact”: Ibid., 294

38. A GAMBLE

 1 “in a fearful passion”: Memoirs, 297

 2 “What will you say to her?”: Ibid.

 3 “Today, my damned nephew”: Ibid., 299

 4 “I felt myself possessed”: Ibid

 5 “My natural pride”: Ibid., 300

 6 “I have just said”: Ibid., 301

 7 “We are all afraid”: Ibid., 302

39. CONFRONTATION

 1 “Why do you wish me”: Memoirs, 305

 2 “My children are in your hands”: Ibid.

 3 “Your Imperial Majesty will tell them”: Ibid.

 4 “God is my witness”: Ibid.

 5 “You are dreadfully haughty”: Ibid., 306

 6 “She is dreadfully spiteful”: Ibid.

 7 “You meddle in many things”: Herzen, 288

 8 “And why did you write”: Ibid., 289

 9 “The grand duke showed much bitterness”: Ibid.

10 “I have many more things to say”: Ibid., 290

11 “He told me that the empress had spoken”: Ibid., 291

12 “I expect you to answer truthfully”: Ibid., 296

40. A MÉNAGE À QUATRE

 1 The quotations appearing in this chapter are taken from Poniatowski’s Memoires, translated by R. Massie

41. PANIN, ORLOV, AND ELIZABETH’S DEATH

 1 “Let the boy remain”: Kaus, 176

 2 “I had rather be the mother”: Ibid., 177

 3 “the terror which the enemy”: Duffy, Frederick, 171

 4 “If I were emperor”: Alexander, 55

 5 “I must make room here”: Kaus, 183

 6 “the head of an angel”: Ibid.

 7 “a man of pleasure”: Dashkova, 1:3

 8 “We spoke French fluently”: Ibid., 4

 9 “I may venture to assert”: Ibid., 13

10 “She captured my heart”: Ibid., 29

11 “My child, you would do well”: Ibid., 27

12 “You are a mere child”: Ibid., 29

13 “gained me a high degree of notoriety”: Ibid., 30

14 “I saw how little”: Ibid., 31

15 “He must be mad”: Oldenbourg, 230