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Authors: Simon Dixon

Catherine the Great (71 page)

and the Russo-Turkish War 204

aims to take Polish territories 207

on the Orlovs 216–17

and Paul’s potential bride 220

philosophes
disillusioned with 225

Paul’s audience with him 245

Frederick William I, King of Prussia 23, 25, 37, 38, 83

Frederick William II, King of Prussia 253, 298

Free Economic Society 145, 154

Freemasonry 132, 276, 277, 308

French Revolution (1789–99) 291, 299, 301

Friedel, Johann Friedrich 33

Fronde, the 12

G

Gabrielli, Caterina 234–5

Gagarina, Princess Anna 82, 86

Gaignat, Louis-Jean 194

Galiani, abbé 194–5, 252

Galicia 250

Galuppi, Baldasare

Dido Abandoned
147

Iphigenia in Tauride
177

Gardi (celebrated black stallion) 170

Gatchina 178, 189, 197, 210, 216, 220, 306, 315, 317

Gavriil, Metropolitan
see
Petrov, Metropolitan Gavriil Gellert, C.F.:
Die Betschwester
200

General Survey 175

generalitet
57, 58, 59, 78, 147, 315

Geoffrin, Madame 93, 132, 139, 153, 155, 157, 223, 225

George II, King 109

George III, King 270, 298, 311

German Courts 31, 33, 71

Gillray, James 297

Giorgione:
Judith
193

Girey, Khan Shagin 263

Glasse, Hannah:
The Art of Cookery
78

Glebov, Alexander 115, 133

Godunov, Boris 161

Goebbels, Joseph 332

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 31

Golitsyn, Field Marshal A.M. 65, 197, 198, 266

Golitsyn, Prince Alexander 124, 171, 233

Golitsyn, Prince Dimitry 181, 193

Golitsyna, Princess 118

Golitsyn family 214

Golombiyevsky, Alexander 331

Golovin, Fëdor 191

Golovin Palace, Moscow 53, 54, 68, 88–9, 159, 160, 169, 170, 174, 176, 213

Golovina, Countess Varvara 315, 317, 318, 326

Gomm, William 166

Gorchakov, Prince A. M. 329

Gorodets 166

Gostilitsy 45, 82, 84, 88

Gostiny dvor, St Petersburg 128

Gotzkowsky, Johann Ernest 193, 194

Gould, William 300, 305, 314

Great Instruction (
Bolshoy Nakaz
) 67, 101, 156–7, 171–5, 182, 199, 266, 324, 325

Great Northern War (1700–21) 9, 25, 40

Grech, Nikolay 324

Greek project 206, 250, 263

Greeks, ancient 250

Greig, Admiral Samuel 202, 287, 290

Grétry, André:
The Marriage of the Samnites
288

Greuze, Jean-Baptiste:
The Paralytic, or the Fruits of a Good Education
193, 260

Gribovsky, Adrian 311

Grigoryev, Apollon 323

Grimm, Baron Melchior 26, 28, 176, 193, 194, 221, 230, 233, 261

correspondence with C
see under
Catherine II the Great

edits the
Correspondance littéraire
222

a member of d’Holbach’s circle 222

matchmaker for Paul and Natalia 223

C’s repeated offers of jobs 223

C’s artistic purchases 262, 285

Gross Jägersdorf, battle of (1757) 105, 184

Grotius, Hugo 68

Grot, Academician 330

Gunning, Sir Robert 216, 217, 218, 222, 230, 232–3, 237–8

Gustav III, King of Sweden 217, 218, 247–8, 253, 265, 290, 293–4, 298, 308, 314

Gustav IV, King of Sweden 314

Guy Dickens, Colonel 99

Gyllenborg, Count Henning Adolf 67, 306

H

Habsburg family 33, 186

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople 250

Halle 51

Hals, Frans:
Young Man Holding a Glove
193

Hamburg 28, 39, 92, 306

Hanbury-Williams, Sir Charles 18, 93, 96, 98, 100, 102, 103, 105, 143, 185, 332

Hanbury-Williams, Major General Sir John 332, 333

Handel, George Frideric:
Scipio
62

Hanover, Elector of 142

Hård, Count Johann 3, 117–18

Hardouin Péréfixe de Beaumont, Paul Philippe 67

Hare Island, St Petersburg 41

Harris, Elizabeth 234

Harris, James 243, 246, 250, 253, 257, 266

Harris, James, senior:
Hermes
250

hawking 69, 70, 133, 170

Helen (Alexander’s Greek nurse) 249

Hellfire Club 84, 93

Hendrikov, Count Andrey 60, 111

Hendrikov family 70

Henri IV, King of France 67, 302

Henry, Prince, of Prussia 34, 204–7, 212, 245

Herder, Johann Gottfried 32, 201

Hermitage, St Petersburg Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg 192–3

Hermitage Theatre 278, 280, 295, 297

Large Hermitage 260–61, 295

Small Hermitage 191–2, 230, 232, 236, 255, 256, 257, 260, 261, 269, 298, 302, 312, 334

Herrera, M. de la 257

Herzen, Alexander 322, 323, 329

Hesse-Darmstadt, Amalia of 220, 221

Hesse-Darmstadt, Louisa of 220

Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince Ludwig of 222, 245

Hesse-Homburg, Field Marshal the Prince of 47

Hesse-Homburg, Princess of (née Anna Trubetskaya) 92

Hitler, Adolf 332

Hofburg, Vienna 33

Hogland island 290

Hohenzollerns 332

Holstein, duchy of 56, 63, 101, 120, 124

Holstein-Beck, Prince of 117

Holstein-Gottorp, Anna Petrovna, Duchess of 35, 56, 104

Holstein-Gottorp, Georg Ludwig, Prince of (C’s uncle) 34, 35, 63, 115, 117, 123

Holstein-Gottorp, Karl August 35

Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Friedrich, Duke of 35, 49, 56

Holstein-Gottorp, Karl Peter Ulrich, Duke of 35

Holy Synod 21, 156, 165, 166, 167, 171, 308

Holy Trinity Cathedral, St Petersburg 42

Honourable Mirror of Youth, or a guide to social conduct, The
71

Horse Guards 6, 58, 123, 216, 221

Houdon, Jean-Antoine 261

Houghton Hall, Norfolk 261

House of Anhalt 25, 32, 60

House of Anhalt-Zerbst 33

House of Holstein 60

House of Holstein-Gottorp 35

House of Quarantine, St Petersburg 258

Huber, Jean 193

Hull, east Yorkshire 202

hunting 69, 70, 85, 170

Hyndford, Lord 58, 59, 99, 100, 222

I

ice hills 45–6

Iletsk 228

Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, St Petersburg 15, 109, 179, 261

Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 68, 78, 86, 133, 162, 197, 225, 264, 275, 278, 294, 324–5, 326

Geographical Description of the River Volga
159, 162, 163, 166, 169

Imperial Assembly 133

Imperial Russian Historical Society 329, 330

Imperial Russian Public Library 133, 142

infant mortality 23

Inkerman 287

Ipatyevsky monastery 164

Irakly, King of Georgia 111, 112

Irkutsk 278

Isaac of Dalmatia, St 179

Isabella of Parma, Princess 36, 37

Ismail, Bessarabia, storming of (1790) 296, 297, 299, 300, 302

Istanbul
see
Constantinople Iushkevich, Amvrosy, Archbishop of Novgorod 52

Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow 5

Ivan IV the Terrible, Tsar of Russia 5, 17, 18, 137, 155, 161, 229

Ivan V, Tsar of Russia 12

Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 11–12, 13, 35, 91, 155

Ivanov, Timofey 181

Ivanov Square, Moscow 20

Izmailovo 80

Izmailovsky Guards 44, 123, 221, 234

J

Jacobinism 301

Jallabert, Professor Jean 141

Jankovich de Mirjevo, F.I. 248, 252

Jassy, Moldavia 203

peace of (1792) 203, 302, 303, 305

Jesuits 251

Jews

massacre of (Balta, 1768) 183

at Polotsk 251

Russia gains a significant number of Jewish subjects 309

John the Baptist, St 17, 150

John the Longsuffering 285

Jones, Inigo 138

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 6, 36, 37, 149, 169, 176, 184, 207, 219, 250, 252–3, 254, 261, 263, 264, 281, 286, 287, 289, 297, 308, 312

Juliana Maria of Brunswick, Queen of Denmark 30

Julius, Duke Heinrich 29

Justinian, Emperor 171

K

Kagul, battle of (1770) 209, 210, 211, 232

Kalachov, Grigory 62

Kalga Sultan 216

Kalmyks 279

Kamchadals 279

Kamensky, General 235

Kangxi, Emperor of China 19

Kaniev 287

Kant, Immanuel 38

Kar, General 228–9

Karamzin, Nikolay 322, 323, 327

Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
325

Karazubazar 287

Karl I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 29, 30, 31

Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg 31

Kassel 260

Kaunitz, Chancellor 207

Kazakhs (Kirghizians) 228, 284

Kazakov, Matvey 214, 238

Kazan 17, 155, 159, 168, 233, 235, 322

Kazan Church (church of the Nativity of the Mother of God), St Petersburg 60, 66, 123, 127–8, 149, 197, 203, 221, 222, 235, 294

Kazan province 228, 229

Kaznakov, S.N. 331

Keith, Sir Robert 111–12

Kerch 239, 263

Keyserling, Count 186

Kharkov 286, 288

Kheraskov, Mikhail 7

Kherson 281, 287, 288, 294

Khitrovo, Guards Captain Fëdor 126, 145

Khodynka field, Moscow 239

Khoroshevo 170

Khotilov 55

Khotin 197, 198, 211

Khovansky, Prince Peter 140

Khrapovitsky, Alexander 279, 289, 291, 293, 296, 297, 298, 313, 328

Kiel 36

Kiev 53–4, 206, 281, 283–4, 286, 290

Kikina, Maria 323

Kinburn 239, 289

Kingston, Duchess of 304

Kirghizians
see
Kazakhs Klin 275

Klyuchevsky, Vasily 330

Knowles, Admiral Sir Charles 231

Kokshaisk 159

Kolomenskoye 80, 170, 288

Kolotov, Peter 322

Koludzhi 235

Königsberg, Prussia (later Kaliningrad, Russia) 25, 38

Konissky, Georgy, bishop of Mogilëv 221, 282

Konnaya estate 204

Korb, Hermann 29

Korf, Baron 122

Kornilovich, Alexander 327

Korobov, Ivan 44

Kosciuszko, Tadeusz 309

Kostroma 164, 167

Kovalyova, Praskovya 288

Kozelets, Chernigov province 48, 53

Kozelsk 282

Kozitsky, Grigory 171, 199

Kozlovskaya, Anastasia 164

Kozmodemyansk 167

Krasnoye Selo 69, 115, 147, 178

Kremenchug 268, 286

Kremlin, Moscow 3–6, 8, 10, 11, 47, 52, 59, 68, 88, 160, 170, 171, 230

Arsenal 7

archbishop’s residence 208

Bazhenov’s abortive plans 212, 258

Pugachëv’s secret trial 237

Krichëv 282

Kronstadt 14, 75, 84, 123–4, 202, 300

Kruse, Dr Karl 113, 125

Krylov, Ivan 307

Kuchuk Kainardzhi 235

Kulibin, Ivan 166–7, 197, 312

Kunersdorf, battle of (1759) 184, 204

Kunstkamera, St Petersburg 78

Kurakin, Prince 254, 256

Kurakina, Princess 118

Kursk 278, 288

Kuskovo 127, 288

Kyakhta, Treaty of (1727) 72

L

Lacy, Count 257

Lacy, Field Marshal 62, 207

Lacy, Marshal 207

Ladoga Canal 158

Lafayette, marquis de 275

Lake Ilmen 274

Lake Ladoga 179, 209

Lambro-Kochoni, Colonel 314

Landé, Jean-Baptiste 54

Lanskoy, Alexander 243, 250, 264–9, 271, 278, 281, 314

Larga River, battle of (1770) 203, 211, 232

Large Caprice, Tsarskoye Selo 210

Le Mercier de la Rivière, Pierre-Paul 154, 201

Lefortovo palace
see
Menshikov Palace

Legislative Commission 65, 155, 157–8, 159, 161, 166, 168, 176, 199, 254

elections to 158, 159, 160, 163

opening of 169, 170

Instruction to the 67, 101, 156–7, 171–5, 182, 199, 277, 324, 325

slow progress of 176, 181–2

proceedings generate a vast reservoir of information 182

sub-committees 182

suspended 183, 198

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 29

Leonardo da Vinci 304

Leopold, Archduke 254

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 308

Lessing, Gotthold 29

Lestocq, Armand 47, 50, 61

Leventhal (Lev’s Valley) 210–11, 215, 257

Lëvshin, Alexander 273

Lëvshin, Metropolitan Platon 148, 151, 152, 180–81, 199–200, 221, 273, 277, 288, 320

Short Course in Christian Theology
221

Lieven, General 102

Life Company 70

Life Guards 102, 121

Ligne, Prince de 25, 253, 268

Liteyny cannon foundry, St Petersburg 197

Little Russia (Ukraine) 9

Littlepage, Lewis 284

Liuberets estate 89

Livland 9, 40

Livy 62

Lobkowitz, Prince 177

Lolli, Antonio 246

Lomonosov, Mikhailo 44, 77

‘Ode on the Accession of Catherine II’ 13

Lopukhin family 214

Lords Commissioners for Trade 9

Louis XIV, King of France 12, 17, 25, 31, 32, 147, 210

Louis XV, King of France 18, 69, 153, 188, 194

Louis XVI, King of France 68, 277, 288, 297, 301, 302, 308, 310

Lüders, Dr 125

Ludwig, Prince, of Brunswick 30

Luke, St 150

Luther, Martin 29

Lutheranism 19, 51

Luzhkov, A.I. 261

Lvov, Prince Nikolay 273, 320

Lyalichi estate 243

Lynar, Count 101

Lyon, France 268

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