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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.

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