Catherine the Great (61 page)
Chapter 3
- 1.
Sochineniia
, XII: 236.
- 2. Bil’basov, i: 219–22, 227–8.
- 3. P. F. Karabanov, ‘Stats-damy i freiliny russkago dvora XVIII v.’,
RS
, 2 (1870), 445–6.
- 4.
Sochineniia
, xii: 84–5, 89, 91.
- 5.
Sochineniia
, xii: 245.
- 6.
Sochineniia
, xii: 245–6.
- 7.
Sochineniia
, xii: 243–4.
- 8.
Sochineniia
, xii: 27.
- 9.
Sochineniia
, xii: 215, 60–1.
- 10.
Sochineniia
, xii: 329.
- 11. Khoteev,
Kniga v Rossii v seredine XVIII v.,
7–9.
- 12.
Sochineniia
, xii: 532.
- 13. J. Hardman,
Louis XVI
(New Haven, CT, 1993), vii.
- 14.
PSZ
, xii: 9276, 10 Apr. 1746; N. Rozanov,
Istoriia Moskovskago Eparkhial’nago Upravleniia so vremeni uchrezhdenii Sv. Sinoda
,
1721–1821
(M, 1869), ii: 1, 153, 159, n. 370.
- 15.
PSZ
, xii: 9286, 15 May 1746; xiii: 9860, 11 June 1751.
- 16. J. McManners,
Death and the Enlightenment
(Oxford, 1981), 302.
- 17.
Sochineniia
, xii: 232–5.
- 18. P. Salvadori,
La chasse sous l’ancien régime
(Paris, 1996), 207; Kutepov,
Tsarskaia okhota
, 30.
- 19. Kutepov,
Tsarskaia okhota
, 64;
KfZh
(1751), 92–5;
PSZ
, xiii: 9903, 3 Nov. 1751.
- 20.
Sochineniia
, xii: 117.
- 21. Wortman,
Scenarios
, 107.
- 22.
AKV
, xxxiv: appendix, n.p, undated. A flask (
shtof
) measured 1.23 litres.
- 23. Mrs Vigor,
Letters from a lady, who resided some years in Russia, to her friend in England
(London, 1775), 73. See also Bespiatykh,
Peterburg Anny Ioannovny
, 145 (C. R. Berch).
- 24. C. von Manstein,
Memoirs of Russia, historical, political and military, from the year M DCC XXVII, to M DCC XLIV
(London, 1770), 248.
- 25. S. Panchulidzev,
Istoriia Kavalergardov 1724–1799–1899
, 4 vols. (SPb, 1899), i: 254–68, at p. 260.
- 26. Decree of 5 May 1758, quoted in N. Findeizen,
History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, 2: The Eighteenth Century
, trans. S. W. Pring, eds. M. Velimirovií and C. R. Jensen (Bloomington, IN, 2008), 30.
- 27.
SIRIO
, ciii: 552, Hyndford to Chesterfield, 23 Feb. 1748.
- 28. Anisimov,
Elizaveta Petrovna
, 132–3, notes a tradition dating back to the empress’s contemporaries.
- 29. C. Koslofsky, ‘Princes of Darkness: The Night at Court, 1650–1750’,
Journal of Modern History
, 79, 2 (2007), 236, 244, 251ff., 258ff.
- 30. See Zitser,
Transfigured Kingdom
, passim.
- 31. Hughes,
Russia in the Age of Peter the Great
, 267–9; P. Keenan, ‘The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700–1762)’, in
Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825
, eds. W. Rosslyn and A. Tosi (Basingstoke, 2007), 127–9.
- 32. Manstein,
Memoirs
, 319.
- 33. Manstein,
Memoirs
, 248–9.
- 34. Vigor,
Letters
, 75.
- 35. Keenan, ‘The Function of Fashion’, 132–3.
- 36. Bil’basov, i: 166, n. 2.
- 37. C. M. Foust,
Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia’s trade with China and its setting, 1727–1805
(Chapel Hill, NC, 1969), 105–63 (esp. 139–41), 357; ‘Kitaiskie tovary v Rossii XVIII v.’,
Istoricheskii arkhiv
, 2006:4, 197–200.
- 38.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 104, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 17/28 July 1750.
- 39. P. Mansel,
Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
(New Haven, CT, 2005), xiii–xiv and
passim
.
- 40.
Sbornik Biografii Kavalergardov 1724–1762
, ed. S. Panchulidzev (SPb, 1901), 342 (I. I. Babaev); Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 31.
- 41. Manstein,
Memoirs
, 248.
- 42.
Sochineniia
, xii: 211;
Russkii pridvornyi kostium ot Petra I do Nikolaia II iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha Sankt-Peterburg
(M, 1999), 28–31.
- 43. N. Iu. Bolotina, ‘Zhenshchiny roda Vorontsovykh v povsednevnoi zhizni imperatorskogo dvora XVIII v.’, in
E.R. Dashkova i zolotoi vek Ekateriny
, ed. L. Tychinina (M, 2006), 142, 150–3.
- 44.
Sochineniia
, xii: 301, 211–2, 252–4.
- 45. For comparisons, see Duindam,
Vienna and Versailles
, ch. 3.
- 46.
KfZh
(1748), suppl., 120–32, 149 (these figures are almost certainly underestimates); K. Pisarenko,
Povsednevnaia zhizn’ russkogo dvora v tsarstvovanie Elizavety Petrovny
(M, 2003), 47–64, esp. 49, 59–60. On titles, see O. G. Ageeva,
Evropeizatsiia russkogo dvora 1700–1796 gg.
(M, 2006), 81–96.
- 47. C. de Wassenaer,
A Visit to St Petersburg, 1824–1825
, trans. and ed. I. Vinogradoff (Norwich, 1994), 58.
- 48.
KfZh
(1748), suppl., 140–9.
- 49. S. M. Troitskii,
Finansovaia politika russkogo absoliutizma v XVIII veke
(M, 1966), 246;
PSZ
, XIII: 9757, 2 June 1750.
- 50.
KfZh
(1748), suppl., 106–8.
- 51. Blanning,
Power of Culture
, 59, 32.
- 52. Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 65–6, 68.
- 53.
Puteshestvie brat’ev Demidovykh po Evrope: Pis’ma i podnevnye Zhurnaly 1750–1761 gody
, ed. G. A. Pobedimova (M, 2006), 101.
- 54. N. W. Wraxall,
Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw and Vienna in the years 1777, 1778 and 1779
, 2 vols. (London, 1806), ii: 213.
- 55. Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 104–5.
- 56. A. I. Uspenskii,
Imperatorskie dvortsy
, i: 34,
Zapiski Imperatorskago Moskovskago Arkhaeologicheskago Instituta
, xxiii (M, 1913).
- 57. I. Reyfman,
Vasilii Trediakovsky: The fool of the ‘new’ Russian literature
(Stanford, CA, 1990), 239.
- 58. Marker,
Imperial Saint
, 216–8 and
passim
.
- 59. Quoted in Anisimov,
Rossiia bez Petra
, 73.
- 60. Mooser, i: 247.
- 61. Quoted in K. Ospovat, ‘Towards a cultural history of the Court of Elizaveta Petrovna’,
SGECRN
, 35 (2007), 38.
- 62. S. W. Mintz,
Sweetness and power: The place of sugar in modern history
(Harmondsworth, 1986), 88–94.
- 63. Sipovskaia, ‘Obedy’, 161.
- 64. Starikova, doc. 936; N. Kazakevich,
Tsarskie zastol’ia v XVIII veke: Tseremonial i dekorativnoe oformlenie paradnykh stolov pri dvore imperatrits Elizavety i Ekateriny II
(SPb, 2003), 22–4.
- 65. E.g.,
KfZh
(1753), 27, C.’s birthday; 74, Elizabeth’s birthday.
- 66. P. Stolpianskii, ‘V starom Peterburge: Banketnye stoly’,
Starye gody
, Mar. 1913, 28–32.
- 67.
KfZh
(1745), Zhurnal banketnyi, 19;
KfZh
(1748), 14–15, 32–3; Iu. Denisov and A. Petrov,
Zodchii Rastrelli
(Leningrad, 1973), 148–9, 187–8;
Zapiski Vasiliia Aleksandrovicha Nashchokina
(SPb, 1842), 101.
- 68. Starikova, doc.; Mooser, i: 221;
KfZh
(1746), 11.
- 69.
AKV
, ii: 109.
- 70. G. M. Zelenskaia,
Novyi ierusalim: putevoditel’
(M, 2003), 44–51.
- 71.
PSZ
, xiii: 9646, 10 July 1749; 9803, 3 Oct. 1750.
- 72. Shtelin,
Muzyka
, 54–5, para. 6.
- 73.
Sochineniia
, xii: 265, 150.
- 74.
KfZh
(1752), 5–6.
- 75.
KfZh
(1757), 68.
- 76. E. I. Indova,
Dvortsovoe khoziaistvo v Rossii: Pervaia polovina XVIII veka
, (M, 1964), 202–15,
passim
. For fruit from Astrakhan, see PSZ, xii: 8997, 20 July 1744; 9186, 8 July 1745.
- 77. E. Justice,
A Voyage to Russia
(York, 1739), 16.
- 78. Pisarenko,
Povsednevnaia zhizn’
, 515–20; the list probably dates from 1747. For information relating to 1740–1, see
Vnutrennii byt Russkago gosudarstva
, i: 366–402.
- 79. Bespiatykh,
Peterburg Anny Ioannovny
, 141 (C. R. Berch).
- 80.
PSZ
, xii: 9161, 27 May 1745; N. I. Batorevich,
Ekateringof: Istoriia dvortsovo-parkovogo ansamblia
(SPb, 2006), 83–9.
- 81. Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 76–7.
- 82.
Sochineniia
, xii: 117.
- 83. I. Vinogradoff, ‘Russian Missions to London, 1711–1789: Further Extracts from the Cottrell Papers’,
Oxford Slavonic Papers
, NS 15 (1982), 71, C. to R. Cottrell, 1741.
- 84.
Sochineniia
, xii: 254–7.
- 85. Iu. Ovsiannikov,
Franchesko Bartolomeo Rastrelli
(Leningrad, 1982), 74.
- 86.
Sochineniia
, xii: 320.
- 87. A. A. Kedrintsev, ‘Iantarnyi zal v Sankt-Peterburge’, in I. P. Sautov, et al,
Iantarnaia komnata: Tri veka istorii
(SPb, 2003), 110–6. The Amber Room was later transferred to Tsarskoe Selo.
- 88.
Sochineniia
, xii: 241, 291.
- 89.
Sochineniia
, xii: 181.
- 90.
Sochineniia
, xii: 183.
- 91. B. Kemp, ‘Sir Francis Dashwood’s Diary of his Visit to St Petersburg in 1733’,
SEER
, 38 (1959–60), 201.
- 92.
PSZ
, xi: 8820, 16 Nov. 1743;
Sochineniia
, xii: 106.
- 93. S. B. Gorbatenko,
Petergofskaia doroga: Oranienbaumskii istoriko-landshaftnyi kompleks
(SPb, 2001), 194;
Sochineniia
, xii: 92–3; 244–5.
- 94. Gorbatenko,
Petergofskaia doroga
, 197, 199;
Sochineniia
, xii: 127.
- 95.
SIRIO
, clxviii: 111, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 29 July 1750.
- 96.
Sochineniia
, xii: 157.
- 97.
Sochineniia
, xii: 273.
- 98.
Sochineniia
, xii: 293–4.
- 99. R. Dimsdale, ‘20 October 1768: Doctor Dimsdale Spends a Day with the Empress’, in
Days from the Reigns
, ed. Cross, ii: 190.
- 100.
Sochineniia
, xii: 260–1.
- 101.
Sochineniia
, xii: 296.
- 102.
KfZh
(1751), 4–15.
- 103.
Sochineniia
, xii: 309, 313–5 (315).
- 104.
Sochineniia
, xii: 325.
- 105.
KfZh
(1753), 93;
PSZ
, xiii: 10,103, 27 May 1753.
- 106.
KfZh
(1753), 65–6;
Sochineniia
, xii: 328–30;
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 519–20, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 4/15 Nov. 1753.
- 107.
AKV
, xxxiii: 466–9, ‘O pozhare moskovskago dvortsa’.
- 108. A. Mikhailov,
Arkhitektor D.V. Ukhtomskii: Ego shkola
(M, 1954), 171–3.
- 109.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 542, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 20/31 Dec. 1753.
- 110.
KfZh
(1753), 74–5;
AKV
, v, 17.
- 111.
Sochineniia
, xii: 329, 332, 324.
- 112.
Sochineniia
, xii: 336–7.
- 113.
Sochineniia
, xii: 338–9.
Chapter 4
- 1.
Walpole Correspondence
, xx: 457–8, Sir H. Mann to Walpole, 13 Dec. 1754 NS.
- 2. Rovinskii,
Obozrenie ikonopisaniia
, 244–6.
- 3.
KfZh
(1754), 121–4.
- 4.
Sochineniia
, xii: 341–7 (341, 345);
KfZh
(1754), 78–9; McGrew, 29–31.
- 5. R. Butterwick,
Poland’s Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski 1732–1798
(Oxford, 1998), 86–100; A. Zamoyski,
The Last King of Poland
(London, 1992), 41–53.
- 6. Quoted
in extenso
by Zamoyski,
Last King
, 58.
- 7.
KfZh
(1755), 68–70: 77 men and 44 women were present.
- 8. V. A. Korentsvit, ‘Krepost’ Peterstadt v Oranienbaume’, in
Pamiatniki istorii i kul’tury Peterburga
, ed. A. V. Pozdnukhov (SPb, 1994), 208–22.
- 9.
Sochineniia
, xii: 307, 355–6.
- 10.
AKV
, xxxiii: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to F. D. Bekhteev, 15 June 1756.
- 11. Uspenskii,
Imperatorskie dvortsy
, i: 38–9, 41;
PSZ
: 10,246, 16 June 1754.
- 12.
Sochineniia
, xii: 117; Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 78.
- 13.
AKV
, xxxi: 86, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, 19 Dec. 1758.
- 14. A. N. Petrov,
Savva Chevakinskii
(Leningrad, 1983), 72, 75–6, 79.
- 15. Iu. V. Trubinov,
Stroganovskii dvorets
(SPb, 1996), 38–61.
- 16. Shcherbatov, 223, 225.
- 17. A. V. Dëmkin,
Britanskoe kupechestvo v Rossii XVIII veka
(M, 1998), 70.
- 18. Sipovskaia, ‘Obedy’, 162–3.
- 19.
AKV
, xxxi: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to M. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin, Feb 1758; 101, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, undated (Jan/Feb 1760); 105, 4/15 Apr. 1760; 110, 24 Oct. 1760.
- 20.
Sochineniia
, xii: 391–2.
- 21.
Correspondance
, 70, 23 Aug. 1756; 81, 24 Aug.
- 22.
AKV
, xxxiii: 32–48. By the same token, no account was taken of Vorontsov’s artistic expenses, for which see S. O. Androsov, ‘Zabytyi russkii metsenat–Graf Mikhail Vorontsov’,
PKNO
, 2000 (M, 2001), 246–77.
- 23.
SIRIO
, clxviii: 466, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 7 July 1753.
- 24. [J-L Favier], ‘Russkii dvor v 1761 godu’,
RS
, Oct. 1878.
- 25. Cross, 55–8; Dëmkin,
Britanskoe kupechestvo
, 128–35.
- 26. Kazakevich,
Tsarskie zastol’ia
, 24.
- 27.
AKV
, xxxiii: 50, ‘Zapiska prikhodu i raskhodu den’gam na 1754 god’; xxxii: 19, M. L. Vorontsov to I. I. Shuvalov, 27 Oct. 1756.
- 28.
Correspondance
, 82, 24 Aug. 1756.
- 29.
Correspondance
, 55, 20 Aug. 1756. See also, p. 74, 23 Aug. (cf. 124, 6 Sept.)
- 30.
Correspondance
, 197, 6 Oct. 1756.
- 31.
Correspondance
, 255, undated, Nov. 1756.
- 32.
SIRIO
, vii: 73, C. to Wolff, 11 Nov. 1756.
- 33.
Correspondance
, 272, 17 Nov. 1756.
- 34.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 118, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 8 Sept. 1750.
- 35.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 113, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 11 Aug. 1750.
- 36. Shcherbatov, 195.
- 37. C. Marsden,
Palmyra of the North: The First Days of St Petersburg
(London, 1942), 130.
- 38.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 321–2, 28 Jan. 1752; ibid., 332, 7 Mar., prompted by ibid., 309, Newcastle to Guy Dickens, 27 Dec. 1751 NS.
- 39.
Sochineniia
, xii: 266.
- 40.
SIRIO
, cx: 292–3, Hyndford to Newcastle, 2 Feb. 1749.
- 41.
Correspondance
, 121, 6 Sept;
KfZh
(1758), 112.
- 42.
KfZh
(1756), 51, 102; Benois,
Tsarskoe Selo
, 246–8.
- 43.
Correspondance
, 4, 3 Aug. 1756.
- 44.
Sochineniia
, xii: 227.
- 45.
Sochineniia
, xii: 224, 219, 225.
- 46.
PSZ
, xii: 8908, 3 Apr. 1744.
- 47.
SIRIO
, cxlviii: 295, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 26 Nov. 1751;
KfZh
(1751), 108–9.
- 48.
Sochineniia
, xii: 288–9.
- 49.
Sochineniia
, xii: 348.
- 50.
Correspondance
, 34, 11 Aug. 1756; 45, 18 Aug.
- 51.
Correspondance
, 145, 11 Sept. 1756.
- 52. Frotier de la Messelière,
Voyage à Pétersbourg, ou nouveaux mémoires sur la Russie
(Paris, 1803), 217–8, punctuation adjusted.
- 53.
Sochineniia
, xii: 393–5, where the event is misdated to 1758. The mistake recurs in A. L. Porfir’eva, ‘Muzykal’nye razvlecheniia Petra Fedorovicha v Oranienbaume’, in
Archivo Russo–Italiano
, IV, eds. Daniela Rizzi and A. Shishkin (Salerno, 2005), 340, and also in
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
, eds. M. Cruse and H. Hoogenboom (New York, 2005), 178. Alexander, 51, gives 17 June 1757. The chronology of this period in C.’s memoirs is especially unreliable.
- 54. Zamoyski,
Last King
, 55.
- 55. Quoted in Alexander, 51.
- 56.
KfZh
(1757), 83.
- 57. J. L. H. Keep, ‘Feeding the Troops: Russian Army Supply Policies during the Seven Years’ War’,
Canadian Slavonic Papers
, 28–31 (1987).
- 58. Bil’basov, i: 332–46.
- 59.
PSZ
, xv: 10,940, 5 Apr. 1759, para. 5;
KfZh
(1759), 42;
Sochineniia
, xii: 407, 423; Alexander, 53–5.
- 60.
AKV
, xxxi: 88, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, 10 Mar. 1759;
PSZ
, xv: 10,930, 9 Mar. 1759.