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16 “Of an army of forty-eight thousand”: Asprey, 520

17 “What is wrong with me”: Duffy, Frederick, 192

18 “I intend to continue the war”: Oldenbourg, 222

19 The account of Dashkova’s nocturnal visit and conversation with Catherine is from Dashkova, 1:32–35

20 “Her Imperial Majesty, Elizabeth Petrovna”: Haslip, 108

42. THE BRIEF REIGN OF PETER 111

 1 “I did not think”: Bain, Peter III, 40

 2 “If, my little friend, you will take my advice”: Dashkova, 1:38

 3 “The moderation and clemency”; Bain, Peter III, 49

 4 “I can find nobody here”: Ibid.

 5 “the chief instrument of the Prussian party”: Ibid., 56

 6 “at a dinner”: Ibid.

 7 “resolved to get free”: Ibid., 57

 8 “We must make peace”: Ibid., 63

 9 “honor of all the valiant officers”: Ibid., 74

10 “nothing was omitted”: Ibid.

11 “out of compassion”: Ibid., 77

12 “the maintenance of solemn engagements”: Ibid., 79

13 “Frankly, I distrust these Russians”: Ibid., 116

14 “If the Russians had wanted”: Ibid., 117

43. “DURA!”

 1 “It does not appear”: Bain, Peter III, 123

 2 “The empress is abandoned”: Ibid., 130

 3 “pot-house wench”: Ibid., 126

 4 “broad, puffy, pock-marked face”: Ibid.

 5 “Dura!”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 27

 6 “It was then that I began to listen”: Bain, Peter III, 192

 7 “Your Majesty can have your revenge”: Ibid., 134

 8 “You already know too much”: Kaus, 214

 9 “Matushka, Little Mother, wake up!”: Anthony, 165

10 “Matushka, forgive us”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 29

11 “Heaven be praised!”: Dashkova, 1:81

12 “like a fifteen-year-old boy”: Ibid., 1:98

13 “I go now with the army”: Alexander, 9

14 “Didn’t I always tell you”: Bain, Peter III, 154

15 “We no longer have an emperor!”: Ibid., 160

16 “I accept the offer”: Ibid., 161

17 “I, Peter, of my own free will”: Kaus, 233

18 “like a child being sent to bed”: Ibid.

44. “WE OURSELVES KNOW NOT WHAT WE DID”

 1 “the greatest misfortune of my life”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 31

 2 “By what right”: Dashkova, 1:89

 3 “I realized with unspeakable pain”: Ibid., 1:90

 4 “I beg Your Majesty”: Peter’s letters from Ropsha to Catherine, Anthony, 176–77

 5 “Matushka, Little Mother”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 32,

 6 “His face wore an expression”: Oldenbourg, 252

 7 “We ourselves know not what we did”: Kaus, 244

 8 “My horror at this death”: Dashkova, 1:107

 9 “On the seventh day of our reign”: Kaus, 246

10 “might spare her health”: Troyat, 139

11 “Peter III had lost the few wits”: Bain, Peter III, 191

12 “it teaches us to be sober”: Cronin, 156

13 “The empress was quite ignorant of this crime”: Haslip, 133

14 “What do they say in Paris”: Anthony, 180

45. CORONATION

 1 “The least soldier of the guards”: Alexander, 67

 2 “You only did your duty”: Cronin, 172

 3 “I implore Your Majesty”: Dashkova, 1:97

 4 “the Princess Dashkova played only a minor part”: Haslip, 144,

 5 The exchange between Catherine and Betskoy is from Dashkova, 1:101–2, and Kaus, 240

 6 “a woman of middle height”: Scott Thomson, 85–86

 7 “the Lord has placed the crown”: Grey, 119

 8 “I cannot go out”: Ibid.

46. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CHURCH

 1 “In the Treasury”: Waliszewski, 313

 2 “an ignominious peace”: Kaus, 239

 3 “no suitable costume”: Ibid.

 4 “Concerning the peace”: Ibid.

 5 “such a vast and limitless empire”: Haslip, 137

 6 “Full reports will be brought to me”: Ibid.,

 7 “Belonging herself to the nation”: Ibid.

 8 “I cannot say that you are lacking”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 44

 9 “the eye of the sovereign”: Ibid., 40

10 “In the Senate”: Ibid., 44–45

11 “You must know”: Ibid., 58

12 “sat like dumb dogs without barking”: Ibid., 116

13 “stretch out their hands”: Kaus, 254

14 “Our present sovereign”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 116

15 “Stop his mouth!”: Ibid. 301 Andrew the Liar: Ibid., 117

16 “You are the successors”: Kaus, 255

47. SERFDOM

 1 “For sale, a barber”: Oldenbourg, 285

 2 “Anyone wishing to buy”: Waliszewski, 304

 3 “For sale: domestics and skilled craftsmen”: Grey, 122

 4 “If we do not agree”: Ibid., 164

 5 “There! You have the people free!”: Cronin, 262

 6 “What has disgusted me”: Grey, 122

 7 “I punished him”: Smith, Pearl, 105

 8 “This is one of my fiddlers”: Ibid. 312 “a miracle of color”: Ibid., 70

 9 “I had the most tender”: Ibid., 71

48. “MADAME ORLOV COULD NEVER BE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA”

 1 “The men who surround me”: Haslip, 143

 2 “Perhaps you are right”: Alexander, 74

 3 “Tell Her Imperial Majesty”: Kaus, 271

 4 “everyone should go about his own business”: Ibid., 273

 5 “If the empress wants me to lay my head”: Haslip, 149

 6 “It is my earnest desire”: Dashkova, 1:128

 7 “There would never”: Smith, Love and Conquest, 9

 8 “You will not be surprised”: Haslip, 178

49. THE DEATH OF IVAN VI

 1 “Take care!”: Kaus, 277

 2 “If the prisoner is insubordinate”: Ibid.