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Epilogue

  • 1.
    Karlik favorita: Istoriia zhizni Ivana Iakubovskago
    , ed. V. P. Zubov (Munich, 1968), 41.
  • 2.
    Zapiski, mneniia i perepiska admiral A. S. Shishkova
    , 2 vols. (Berlin, 1870), i: 9–10.
  • 3. Wortman,
    Scenarios
    , 171–2; McGrew, 210.
  • 4. Madariaga, 569–70; McGrew, 184–5, 190, and ch. 6
    passim
    .
  • 5. Parkinson, 22–3, 143.
  • 6.
    Memoirs of Countess Golovine
    , 129.
  • 7. See Hughes, ‘The funerals of the Russian emperors and empresses’, 395–419.
  • 8.
    Memoirs of Countess Golovine
    , 130–2.
  • 9. M. B. Asvarishch, et al,
    Tsareubiistvo 11 Marta 1801 goda
    (SPb, 2001), 69, no. 24.
  • 10. McGrew, 194.
  • 11. Asvarishch,
    Tsareubiistvo
    , 24–32.
  • 12. Asvarishch,
    Tsareubiistvo
    , 67, no. 28.
  • 13. Wortman,
    Scenarios
    , 172–3; M. Safonov,
    Zaveshchanie Ekateriny II: Roman-issledovanie
    (SPb, 2002), 216–26; Asvarishch,
    Tsareubiistvo
    , 23, no. 22.
  • 14. Asvarishch,
    Tsareubiistvo
    , 69, no. 25.
  • 15.
    Zapiski A. A. Iakovleva, byvshego v 1803 godu ober-prokurorom Sv. Sinoda
    , ed. V. A. Andreev (M, 1915), 36, note;
    Sobranie rechei…Amvrosiem Mitropolitom Novgorodskim i Sanktpeterburgskim
    (M, 1810), 17, 66–7.
  • 16. P. Hayden, ‘Tsarskoe Selo: The History of the Ekaterininskii and Aleksandrovskii Parks’, in
    A sense of place: Tsarskoe Selo and its poets
    , eds. L. Loseff and B. Scherr (Columbus, OH, 1993), 28.
  • 17. A. Makhrov, ‘Architecture and politics: Catherine the Great’s “Greek Project” in the works of Nikolai L’vov’,
    SGECRN
    , 26 (1998), 12; Wortman,
    Scenarios
    , 153, 160, 172–3.
  • 18. McGrew, ch. 10.
  • 19.
    PSZ
    , xxvi: 19,779, 12 Mar. 1801. This section draws in revised form on materials first discussed in my article, ‘The posthumous reputation of Catherine II in Russia, 1797–1837’,
    SEER
    , 77 (1999), 646–79, where further references may be found.
  • 20. A. G. Cross, ‘Contemporary responses (1762–1810) to the personality and career of Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova’,
    Oxford Slavonic Papers
    , NS 27 (1994), 56;
    The Russian Journals of Martha and Catherine Wilmot
    , ed. the Marchioness of Londonderry and H.M. Hyde (London, 1935), 52, Martha’s Journal, 23 Sept. 1803.
  • 21. A. Malinovskii, ‘Svedeniia dlia zhizneopisaniia Kniagini Ekateriny Romanovny Dashkovoi’, appendix to S. R. Dolgova, ‘E.R. Dashkova i sem’ia Malinovskikh’, in
    Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova: Issledovaniia i materialy
    (SPb, 1996), 78.
  • 22.
    Russian Journals
    , 206, Catherine to her sister, Alicia, 2 Dec. 1805.
  • 23. K[niaginia] D[ashkova] and A. K.,
    Podlinnye Anekdoty Imperatritsy Ekateriny Velikoi Premudroi Materi Otechestva
    (M, 1806), iii.
  • 24. V. Iu. Afiani, ‘Stanovlenie zhurnal’noi arkheografii v Rossii v pervoi treti XIX v.’,
    Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1989 god
    (M, 1990), 30.
  • 25.
    Zapiski kasatel’no Rossiiskoi Istorii: Sochineniia Gosudaryni Imperatritsy Ekateriny II
    , 6 parts (SPb, 1801);
    Filosoficheskaia i politicheskaia perepiska Imperatritsy s Doktorom Tsimermannom
    etc. (SPb, 1801);
    Ermitazhnyi Teatr Velikiia Ekateriny
    etc. etc. (M, 1802);
    Perepiska Rossiiskoi Imperatritsy Ekateriny II s gospodiny Vol’tera
    etc., 2 parts (M, 1803).
  • 26. [N.M. Karamzin],
    Pokhval’noe slovo Ekaterine Vtoroi
    (M, 1802).
  • 27. P. Kolotov,
    Deianiia Ekateriny, Imperatritsy i Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia
    , 6 parts (SPb, 1811).
  • 28. I. S[reznevskii],
    Dukh Ekateriny Velikiia
    etc. etc. (SPb, 1814), foreword, n.p.
  • 29.
    Russian Journals
    , 386, 388, Martha’s Journal, 7 Oct. 1808.
  • 30. F. F. Vigel,
    Zapiski
    , ed. S. Ia. Straikh, 2 vols. (M, 1928), i: 100.
  • 31. P. Sumarokov,
    Progulka po 12-ti guberniiam s istoricheskimi i statisticheskimi zamecheniiami v 1838 godu
    (SPb, 1839), 202.
  • 32. D. Davydov,
    Voennye zapiski
    , ed. V. Orlov (M, 1940), 415; idem,
    Sochineniia
    (M, 1985), 129.
  • 33. A. I. Gertsen,
    Sobranie sochinenii
    , 30 vols. (M, 1954–65), vii: 53; A. Herzen,
    My past and thoughts
    , trans. C. Garnett, 4 vols. (London, 1968), ii: 531.
  • 34.
    1857–1861: Perepiska Imperatora Aleksandra II s Velikim Kniazem Konstantinom Nikolaevichem; Dnevnik Velikago Kniazia Konstantina Nikolaevicha
    , eds. L. G. Zakharova and L. I. Tiutiunnik (M, 1994), 212, diary, 13 Dec. 1859.
  • 35. Herzen,
    My past and thoughts
    , ii: 448.
  • 36. A. P. Kern,
    Vospominaniia, dnevniki, perepiska
    (M, 1989), 115;
    Zapiski Sverbeeva
    , i: 242–4; ii: 283–4.
  • 37. T. A. Alekseeva,
    Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskii i russkaia kul’tura na rubezhe 18–19 vekov
    (M, 1975), 105–6.
  • 38. A. Grigor’ev,
    Vospominaniia
    , ed. B. F. Egorov (M, 1988), 37.
  • 39.
    Russian Journals
    , 386, Martha’s Journal, 7 Oct. 1808.
  • 40. K. Sh-v, ‘Tsaritsyno’,
    Vestnik Evropy
    , 11 (1804), July, 219–22.
  • 41. P. A. Viazemskii,
    Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
    , v: 127–8; A. F. Merzliakov, ‘Rassuzhdenie o Rossiiskom slovesnoti v nyneshnem ee sostoianii (1812)’ reprinted in
    Literaturnaia kritika 1800–1820-kh godov
    , ed. L. G. Frizman (M, 1980), 125.
  • 42.
    Sochineniia Nikolaia Grecha
    , 3 vols. (SPb, 1855), iii: 320–1.
  • 43. K. N. Batiushkov,
    Opyty i stikakh v proze
    , ed. I. M. Semenko (M, 1977), 80.
  • 44.
    Literaturnaia kritika
    , ed. Frizman, 36–7, 43.
  • 45.
    Poliarnaia zvezda
    , eds. V. A. Arkhipov et al (Moscow-Leningrad, 1960), 15.
  • 46. Pushkin,
    Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
    , xiii: 178, to A. A. Bestuzhev, late May/early June 1825.
  • 47.
    Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
    , 12 vols. (Philadelphia, PA, 1874–7), ii: 115.
  • 48.
    PSZ
    , xxvi: 19,904, 5 June 1801.
  • 49. Parkinson, 61; V. Khodasevich,
    Derzhavin: A biography
    , trans. A. Brantlinger (Madison, WI, 2007), 93–4; N. Riasanovsky,
    Nicholas I and Official Nationality 1825–1855
    (Berkeley, CA, 1969), 116–7.
  • 50. M. V. Klochkov, ‘Nakaz imperatritsy Ekateriny II v sudebnoi praktike’,
    Sbornik statei v chesti M. K. Liubavskago
    (Petrograd, 1917), 1–18.
  • 51.
    Arkhiv brat’ev Turgenevykh, vyp. 6: Perepiska Aleksandra Ivanovicha Turgeneva s kn. Petrom Aleksandrovichom Viazemskim, chast’ I: 1814–1833 gody
    (Petrograd, 1921), 295, Aug. 1833;
    Dekabrist N. I. Turgenev: Pis’ma k bratu S. I. Turgenevu
    , ed. N. G. Svirin (M, 1936), 245, 15 Dec. 1817; Madariaga,
    Politics and Culture
    , 236.
  • 52.
    AKV
    , xxi: 361.
  • 53.
    Karamzin’s Memoir on Ancient and Modern Russia
    , ed. and trans. R. Pipes (New York, 1972), 133.
  • 54. M. M. Speranskii,
    Proekty i zapiski
    , ed. S. N. Valk (Moscow-Leningrad, 1961), 20, 140.
  • 55.
    Memoirs of Countess Golovine
    , 35.
  • 56. For detailed references, see my essay ‘“Prosveshchenie”: Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia’, in
    Peripheries of the Enlightenment
    , eds. R. Butterwick, S. Davies and G. Sanchez-Espinoza,
    Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
    (2008:01).
  • 57.
    Sochineniia Derzhavina
    , ed. Grot, iii: 211–3.
  • 58. ‘O nravstvennom sostoianii voisk Rossiiskoi imperii i v osobennosti Gvardeiskogo korpusa’, ed. N. A. Kargopolova,
    Reka vremen
    , 1 (1995), 40.
  • 59. A. Viskovatov,
    Kratkaia istoriia Pervago Kadetskago Korpusa
    (SPb, 1832), 35, 38, 46–8.
  • 60. Polevoi,
    Literaturnaia kritika
    , 168–9.
  • 61. M. A. Gillel’son,
    P. A. Viazemskii: zhizn’ i tvorchestva
    (Leningrad, 1969), 225–8.
  • 62. A.I. Kornilovich,
    Sochineniia i pis’ma
    (Moscow-Leningrad, 1957), 211.
  • 63. Shishkov, ‘Dostopamiatnye skazaniia’, 20; M. Al’tshuller,
    Predtechi slavianofil’stva v russkoi literature: Obshchestvo ‘Beseda liubitelei russkogo slova’
    (Ann Arbor, MI, 1984), 36–7.
  • 64. Sumarokov,
    Cherty Ekateriny Velikiia
    , xix, 46, 48–9.
  • 65. Dolgorukov,
    Kapishche moego serdtsa
    , 235.
  • 66. A. S. Pushkin,
    Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
    , 17 vols. (M, 1937–59), ix: 32, note.
  • 67. I. I. Dmitriev,
    Vzgliad na moiu zhizn’
    (SPb, 1895), 161.
  • 68.
    Ostaf’evskii arkhiv kniazei Viazemskikh, t. 2: Perepiska P.A. Viazemskago s A.I. Turgenvym 1820–1823
    (SPb, 1899), 45–6, 11 Aug. 1820.
  • 69. A. G. Tartakovskii,
    Russkaia memuaristika XVIII-pervoi polovine XIX v.: Ot rukopisi k knige
    (M, 1991), 215, 218–9.
  • 70. M. Mokrousova, ‘A. I. Turgenev–sobiratel’ istochnikov po istorii Rossii’,
    Sovetskie arkhivy
    , 1974: 4, 40–1.
  • 71. See S. Dixon, ‘Pushkin and history’,
    The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
    , ed. A. Kahn (Cambridge, 2006).
  • 72. Khrapovitskii, 31, 13 Apr. 1787. See also A.A. Vasil’chikov,
    Semeistvo Razumovskikh
    , vol. V (SPb, 1894), 1–35; L. Maikov,
    Pushkin: Biograficheskie materialy i istoriko-literaturnye ocherki
    (SPb, 1899), 397–413.
  • 73.
    Imperatorskoe russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo, 1866–1916
    (Petrograd, 1916), 4–5, 60.
  • 74.
    SIRIO
    , xiii: i.
  • 75. This section draws, in revised form, on sources first discussed in my ‘Catherine the Great and the Romanov Dynasty: The case of the Grand Duchess Mariia Pavlovna (1854–1920)’, in
    Russian Society and Culture and the Long Eighteenth Century
    , eds. Bartlett and Hughes (Münster, 2004), 195–208, where further references may be found.
  • 76. S. S. Trubachev, ‘G.P. Danilevskii: biograficheskii ocherk’, in G.P. Danilevskii,
    Polnoe sobranie sochinenii
    , 8th edn., 24 vols. (SPb, 1901), i: 44, 46, 61, 79–88; ‘Vospominaniia E. N. Opochinina’, ed. E. V. Bronnikova,
    Vstrechi v proshlym
    , 7 (M, 1990), 65;
    M. M. Stasiulevich i ego sovremenniki v ikh perepiske
    , ed. M. K. Lemke, 5 vols. (SPb, 1911–13), v: 326–7.
  • 77. A. Bogdanovich,
    Tri poslednikh samoderzhtsa
    (M, 1990 edn.), 133, 27 Jan. 1890.
  • 78. C.A. Stoddard,
    Across Russia: From the Baltic to the Danube
    (London, 1892), 74, 40.
  • 79. F.-X. Coquin, ‘Le monument de Catherine II à Saint-Pétersbourg’, in
    Catherine II et L’Europe
    , ed. Davidenkoff, 21–2.
  • 80.
    SIRIO
    , xiii: xii-xiii.
  • 81. V.O. Kliuchevsky,
    Sochineniia
    , 8 vols. (M, 1956–9), v: 309–11.
  • 82. Bil’basov,
    passim
    ;
    Dnevnik gosudarstvennogo sekretaria A. A. Polovtsova
    , ed. P. A. Zaionchkovskii, 2 vols. (M, 1966), ii: 260, 15 Jan. 1890; 341, 8 Jan. 1891; P. A. Zaionchkovskii,
    Rossiiskoe samoderzhavie v kontse XIX stoletiia: Politicheskaia reaktsiia 80-kh–nachala 90-kh godov
    (M, 1970), 285–6.
  • 83. See A. Pyman,
    The life of Aleksandr Blok: I, The distant thunder, 1880–1908
    (Oxford, 1978), 51.
  • 84. For example, L. Zhdanov [L. G. Gel’man],
    V setiakh intriga: Dva potoka. Istoricheskii roman vremeni Ekateriny II
    (SPb, 1912); M. Evgeniia,
    Liubovniki Ekateriny
    (M, 1917).
  • 85. Velikii kniaz’ Nikolai Mikhailovich,
    Russkie portrety XVIII i XIX stoletii
    , 5 vols. (SPb, 1905–9); J. E. Bowlt,
    The silver age: Russian art in the early twentieth century and the ‘World of Art’ group
    (Newtonville, MA, 1979), 166–7; R. Buckle,
    Diaghilev
    (London, 1979), 84–8.
  • 86.
    Dnevnik V. N. Lamzdorfa (1886–1890)
    , ed. F. A. Rotshtein (Leningrad, 1926), 93–4, 15 Jan. 1888; 203, 24 Mar. 1889.
  • 87.
    Dnevnik Polovtsova
    , ii: 203, 31 May 1889.
  • 88. N. Notovich,
    L’Empereur Alexandre III et son entourage
    (Paris, 1893), 93.
  • 89. R. Wortman, ‘The Russian empress as mother’, in
    The family in imperial Russia: New lines of historical research
    , ed. D. L. Ransel (Urbana, IL, 1978), 61.
  • 90. Sir G. Buchanan,
    My mission to Russia and other diplomatic memories
    , 2 vols. (London, 1923), i: 175–6.
  • 91. John Hanbury-Williams,
    The Emperor Nicholas II: As I knew him
    (London, 1922) 58, diary, 4 Oct. 1915.
  • 92. Suvorov,
    Pis’ma
    , 204, to I. M. [José] Ribas.
  • 93. The plant’s formal name was
    cardamine nivalis
    : see A. K. Sytin, ‘P. S. Pallas, P. I. Shangin i Ekaterina Velikaia’,
    Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki
    , 2 (1997), 124.
  • 94. Shcherbatov, 235.
  • 95. Diderot,
    Mémoires pour Catherine II
    , ed. P. Vernière (Paris, 1966), 197–8; D. Griffiths, ‘To live forever: Catherine II, Voltaire and the pursuit of immortality’, in
    Russia and the World of the Eighteenth Century
    , eds. Bartlett, Cross, Rasmussen, 446–68.
  • 96. Grimm, 77, 2 Feb. 1778.
  • 97. Shcherbatov, 255, 241–5, 251–3, (241). Compare Martha Wilmot’s reflections on a present given to Princess Dashkova: ‘It was the first present she ever receiv’d from Katherine the Second, & certainly serv’d to recall the most interesting period of a friendship which
    then
    existed assuredly, as Katherine was only a Grand Dutchess; but for which sentiment
    they say
    a Crown very very rarely leaves room & I doubt whether the Great Katherine form’d an exception to the general observation.’
    Russian Journals
    , 159, Martha’s Journal, 1 Dec. 1805 NS.

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