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 3 “The prisoner is somewhat quieter”: Ibid.

 4 “painful and almost unintelligible stammering”: Ibid., 278

 5 “The prisoner shall not be allowed”: Ibid., 280

 6 “Release us”: Ibid.

 7 “Compliance with your request”: Ibid.

 8 “Make your own career, young man”: Ibid., 282

 9 “Not long had Peter III possessed”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 35

10 “If the others agree”: Kaus, 285

11 “Where is the emperor?”: Alexander, 91

12 “See, my brothers”: Kaus, 285

13 “The ways of God are wonderful”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 36

14 “she left here with an air”: Waliszewski, 264

15 “As regards the insult”: Kaus, 287

16 “loyally performing their duty”: Ibid., 288

17 “The manifesto she has issued”: Troyat, 167

18 “It seems to me that if I were on the throne”: Ibid.

19 “I am tempted to say to you”: Ibid.

50. CATHERINE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

 1 “Whatever style I possess”: Haslip, 157

 2 “The victorious nation never profits”: Durant, 10:151

 3 “Oh, mighty God, I believe”: Ibid., 9:750

 4 “Tell them I am very sick”: Ibid., 10:133

 5 “the highest and coldest garret”: Ibid.

 6 “hanged, drowned, broken on the wheel”: Ibid., 9:731

 7 “It took two hours”: Ibid., 9:733

 8 “I shall be coming to Paris”: Ibid., 10:392

 9 “For my part, I am consoled”: Ibid., 10:139

10 “He governed the whole civilized world”: Ibid., 9:784

11 “Since Voltaire died”: Anthony, 229

12 “these are family matters”: Gorbatov, 70

13 “I believe we must moderate”: Ibid.

14 “Semiramis of the North”: Durant, 9:448

15 “try to persuade the octogenarian”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 336

16 “in certain ways … a hundred”: Gorbatov, 177

17 “You and M. Diderot”: Durant, 9:719

18 “Go on, brave Diderot”: Ibid.

19 “It would be cruel”: Gooch, 60

20 “I prostrate myself”: Troyat, 177

21 “we are three who would build you altars”: Ibid., 178

22 “Thirty years of labor”: Ibid.

23 “I never thought”: Gorbatov, 156

24 “That door will be opened to you”: Oliva, 119

25 “my good lady”: Troyat, 207

26 “an extraordinary man”: Durant, 9:448

27 “I have listened”: Troyat, 207

28 “Now you sit beside Caesar”: Ibid., 209

29 “Madame, I am positively in disgrace”: Reddaway, 198

30 “Live, Monsieur”: Ibid., 199

31 “returned to her in chains”: Ibid., 200

51. THE NAKAZ

 1 “one of the most remarkable political treatises”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 151

 2 “Russia is a European state”: Ibid., 153

 3 “it is much better to prevent than to punish crimes”: Reddaway, 225

 4 “productive of nothing”: Ibid., 288

 5 “The use of torture is contrary”: Ibid., 231

 6 “without any sensible inconveniences”: Ibid., 232

 7 “What right can give anyone authority”: Ibid., 244

 8 “All punishments by which the human body”: Ibid., 227

 9 “Some judges should be of the same rank”: Ibid., 232

10 “a civil society requires a certain established order”: Ibid., 256

11 “Why should they bother to be clean”: Haslip, 162

12 “These are axioms which will bring down walls”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 158

13 “I let them erase what they pleased”: Ibid.

14 “Since the Law of Nature”: Reddaway, 256

15 “I have decked myself out in peacock’s feathers”: Grey, 147

16 “I have robbed Montesquieu”: Troyat, 179

17 “would have been capable”: Troyat, 182

18 “the finest monument of the age”: Gooch, 67

19 “A masculine, nervous performance”: Troyat, 182

20 “I must warn Your Majesty”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 151

52. “ALL FREE ESTATES OF THE REALM”

 1 “By this institution, we give to our people”: Alexander, 102

 2 “you will receive a letter”: Ibid., 103

 3 “There can be nothing more pleasant”: Ibid., 108

 4 “These laws, about which so much has been said”: Ibid., 109

 5 “There are so many objects”: Ibid.

 6 “Here, the people along the Volga”: Ibid., 110

 7 “The town rose high on a hill”: Kerensky, 3

 8 “to glorify yourselves and your country”: Alexander, 112

 9 “I brought them together to study laws”: Troyat, 181

10 “Have they really already lost”: Alexander, 115

11 “The peasant has his feelings”: Madariaga, Russia in the Age, 176

12 “The majority of votes”: Ibid., 159

13 “And have their throats cut from time to time”: Ibid., 160

14 “cannot have in present circumstances”: Ibid.

15 “A general emancipation”: Alexander, 116

16 “What had I not to suffer”: Anthony, 215

17 “The idea that the principal purpose”: Madariaga, Catherine, 34

53. “THE KING WE HAVE MADE”

 1 “I am sending Count Keyserling”: Kaus, 262

 2 “fortunate anarchy”: Alexander, 123

 3 “There is a vast difference between melons”: Kaus, 264

 4 “to resort, if need be, to force of arms”: Ibid., 265

 5 “without the slightest mercy”: Alexander, 126 367 “Do not laugh at me”: Kaus, 263

 6 “I beg you most urgently not to come here”: Coughlan, 228

 7 “a thousand inconveniences”: Ibid.

 8 “in the hands of the brothers Orlov”: Ibid., 229

 9 “I beg of you to listen to me”: Kaus, 263

10 “the new king we have made”: Ibid., 266