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Authors: Simon Dixon
Catherine the Great (75 page)
Vorontsov, Count Semën 134, 182, 235, 270, 298
Vorontsov family 105, 106, 113, 114, 134, 281
Vorontsov Palace, St Petersburg 95, 295
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Katlovna 15, 18, 21, 74, 109–13, 118
Vorontsova, Countess Anna Mikhailovka 74, 109–13, 142–3
Vorontsova, Elizabeth 16, 92, 104, 110, 115, 124
Votiaks 168
Voulgaris, Eugenios 294, 304
Vyazemsky, Prince Alexander 134, 233, 237, 274, 285, 306, 308, 333
Vyazemsky, Prince Peter 327
Vyborg 293
Vyshny Volochëk 272, 275
W
Wagner, Pastor Friedrich 26–7, 28
Wailly, Charles de 288
Wallachia 203, 229
Walpole, George, 3rd earl 261
Walpole, Horace 241, 261, 308–9
Walpole, Sir Robert 261
War of American Independence (1775–83) 263
Warsaw 219, 301, 309, 311
Washington, George 275
Watteau, Antoine 193, 304
Wedgwood, Josiah 261
Weimar Republic 33
Weitbrecht, Johann 310
Westminster Abbey, London 16
Whately, Thomas:
Observations on Modern Gardening
210
Whitworth, Charles 323
Wilkes, John 261
Wilmot, Catherine 321, 323
Wilmot, Martha 321, 322, 323
Winter Annenhof (later Golovin Palace), Moscow 47
Winter Palace, St Petersburg 45, 55–6, 58, 60, 66, 79, 278
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (stone) 95, 119–20, 121, 123, 130, 135, 136–9, 181, 189, 200, 221, 225, 265, 269, 280, 299, 302, 315
Amber Room 83, 231
Chevalier Gardes’ Room 132, 137, 318
Portrait Room 137
Diamond Room 138, 232, 315
Mirror Room 138
library 138
massive proportions 138
audience chamber 141
Orlov’s rooms above C’s 145
theatre 146
extravagant masquerade (1770) 205
Potëmkin’s apartments 233
and Sophia’s reception in Russia 245
great flood of 1777 258
Constantine’s apartments 313
St George’s Hall 315
and C’s death 316, 317–19
Grand Gallery 318
requiem service for Peter III 319
loss of interiors in great fire of 1837 138
Winter Palace, St Petersburg (temporary wooden structure) 95, 112, 113, 115, 147
Wolff, Jacob 97–8 ‘World of Art’ group 331
Wörlitz 32
Wortman, Richard 332
Wouvermans, Philip 193
Wraxall, Nathaniel 214, 235
Württemberg, Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of 31
Württemberg, Frederick, Prince of 281
Württemberg, Zelmira, Princess of (Princess Auguste of Brunswick) 281
Y
Yaik Cossack host 228
Yakovlev, Savva 127, 163
Yakubovsky, Ivan 316
Yaroslavl 163–4, 165
Yauza River 10
Yekaterinburg, Siberia 209
Yekaterinburg fortress 84, 94
Yekaterinhof suburban palace 68, 82, 83, 234
Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) 280, 304, 311
Yekaterintal Palace, Reval 204
Yelagin, Ivan 130, 135, 165, 171, 178, 195, 234, 235, 333
a lifelong servant of C’s 131
arrested with Bestuzhev 132
connection with English Masonic lodges 132
and the Imperial theatres 148
Yenikale 239
Yermolov, Lieutenant Alexander 272, 274
relationship with C 270–71
the ‘white negro’ 270
rapid downfall 270
inveigled into an intrigue against Potëmkin 270
dismissed and sent abroad 270
extended ‘retirement’ 270
Yeropkin, Senator Peter 44, 206–7, 208
Yevreinov, Timofey 66, 99
Yorke, Charles 93
Young Court 65, 66, 69–70, 79, 90, 105, 133, 140, 141, 143, 178, 219, 222, 303
Yusupov, Nikolay 321
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Zagryazhskaya, Natalia 328
Zaporozhian Cossacks 9, 238
Zatrapezny, Ivan 163
Zavadovsky, Peter 270, 278, 281, 282–3, 290, 324
relationship with C 28, 241, 242–3
promoted to major general 242
temporary retirement to Lyalichi 243
long career at Court 243
Commission of National Schools 248
and the Russo-Swedish War 293
and the second Russo-Turkish War 294
and Poland’s third partition 309–10
Zemtsov, Mikhail 44, 60
Zerbst, family seat at 24, 28, 33–6, 66, 106
Zherebstova, Olga 322–3
Zhurzha (now Giurgiu, Romania) 208
Zimmerman, Dr Johann 277, 280, 283, 321
Solitude considered with respect to its influence on the mind and the heart
271
Zips (Spisz) 207
Znamenskoye 127
Zorich, Semën 243, 251–2
Zorin, Andrey 297
Zorndorf, battle of (1758) 112
Zosima, Abbot 165
Zubov, Count Nikolay 315
Zubov, Platon 291, 294, 295, 300, 301, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 316, 322
Zubov, Valerian 296
Zwinger complex, Dresden 33
SIMON DIXON
is professor of modern history and chairman of the School of History at the University of Leeds in England. He specializes in the history of imperial Russia, with particular focus on the eighteenth century and the Russian Orthodox Church. He is regularly invited to lecture on Russian culture to general audiences around the world and in the United States.
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CATHERINE THE GREAT
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