Simon Dixon - Catherine the Great

Cook, John 43

Copenhagen 219

Corberon, chevalier de 242, 243–4, 245, 246, 260, 265

Coriolanus 306

Coronation Commission 7

Correggio, Antonio 142

Correspondance littéraire 193, 222

Corsica 196

Cossacks 158, 174, 183, 222, 228, 229, 233, 236

Court Office 75, 274

Coxe, Archdeacon William 6, 273, 281

crime and punishment 173, 175–6, 200, 236, 251

Crimea 208, 209, 263, 287, 288, 289, 317

Crozat, Pierre 193

Cruys, Cornelius 191, 192

currency 195

d’Alembert, Jean 153, 206, 222

Damas, Comte de 296

Danilevsky, G.P.

Catherine the Great on the Dnieper 329

Mirovich 330

Potëmkin on the Danube 330

Princess Tarakanova 330

Danube River 207, 293, 296, 302, 306

Dashkov, Prince 111, 120, 185

Dashkova, Princess 16, 95, 110–11, 113, 120, 122, 124, 126, 156, 185, 226, 264, 265, 267, 295, 321, 325

Dashwood, Sir Francis 84

Dauphin of France 57

Davydov, Denis 322

death penalty 173

Demidov brothers 76

Demosthenes 299

Denis (a foundling adopted by C) 334

Denmark

Swedish pressure on 24

Peter III prepares to attack the Danes 120, 121

Panin negotiates an alliance with 139

defensive alliance with Russia (1765) 188

Dent, William 298

Department of Public Welfare, Yekaterinoslav 304

Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich 299, 300, 307, 316, 324, 326, 327

‘Picnics’ 139–40

D’Holbach, Baron Good Sense 222

System of Nature 222

Diderot, Denis 41, 153, 172, 181, 193, 194, 201, 222, 224–7, 229, 261, 277, 310, 333

Dimitry, Tsarevich 161

Dimsdale, Elizabeth 250, 258, 259

Dimsdale, Dr Thomas 85, 188–92, 247, 248, 307

Dingley, Robert 148

Dmitrevsk 169

Dmitriev, Ivan 327, 328

Dmitrovo kitchen gardens 80

Dmitryev-Mamonov, Alexander (‘Redcoat’) 280, 281, 290–91

L’Insouciant 280

Dnieper River 281, 283, 284, 289, 309

Dolgorukov, Prince 327

Dolgoruky, Prince 161, 231

Dolgoruky family 214

Domashnëv, Sergey 264

Dominicans 251

Don Cossacks 9, 228

Dornburg on the Elbe 34

Dorofey, Archimandrite 282

Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) 40

Dresden, Court of 30, 31, 93, 261

Drone, The (journal) 199, 200, 210

Dubyansky, Archpriest Fëdor 4

Duke August Library, Wolfenbüttel 29

duma (town council) 271, 286

Dumaresq, Daniel 129

Dyaghilev, Sergey 331

E

Eastern Empire 249

Eberts, Jean-Henri 194 École des Arts, Paris 136

Edinburgh, University of 264

education 248–9, 252, 295, 296

advisory committee on 248

Eisen, Pastor Johann Georg 123, 129, 145, 155, 172

Elisabeth Christine, Queen of Prussia 30, 37

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia 18, 45, 200, 255, 296, 332

coup (1741) 35, 44, 48

coronation 14, 47, 54

invites C to Russia 35–6

her favourite, Razumovsky 45, 48

meets C 47–8

personality 5, 47, 55, 67, 70

appearance 47, 48, 86

birthday 55, 77, 89, 114, 176

C’s wedding 56, 58–62

irritated at C’s failure to produce a male heir 65–6

taboo subjects 68

prizes her privacy 68–9

daily life 70

spending of 73–8

accession day 77, 114

coronation day 10–11, 77, 89, 112

name day 77

a golden age of Baroque church-building 79

and Paul’s early years 92

aversion to business 99

health 99–100, 105–9, 111, 113, 114

death 114

funeral 115–18

parallels shown between her and C 13

Encyclopédie 136, 153, 160, 199, 222, 261, 286

Engelhardt, Lev Nikolayevich 282

Enlightenment 67, 68, 165

C as a celebrated patron 28

an important influence on C’s legislation 153

and C’s Instruction 172, 173, 199–200

and Grimm 224, 225

C aims to nurture rational children of the Enlightenment 248

C’s Enlightened policies and the nobility 271

suspicion of C’s fascination with the French Enlightenment 325–6

fundamental belief in self-development 335

equity courts 255

Erasmus, Desiderius 71

Esterhazy, Count 98

Esterhazy, Count Valentin 302, 303

Estland 9, 40

Euler, Leonhard 264

Eutin 35, 36, 64

Falconet, Etienne-Maurice 160, 176, 181, 190, 194, 204, 209, 218, 225, 257

Farnese, Elizabeth 37

Fauchier-Magnan, Adrien 30, 31

Fëdorov monastery, Gorodets 165

Felbiger, Abbot Johann Ignaz von 248, 252

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe: Adventures of Télémaque 141

Feofan, Bishop see Charnutsky Feofil, Bishop 282

Ferdinand, Prince 30

Fermor, Count Villem 158–9, 160

Ferney 206, 261

Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews 199

Filaret, Patriarch 164

Finland 300

Russian 9

Finno-Ugric people 167

Fioravanti, Aristotele 5, 15

Fitzherbert, Alleyne 272, 282, 283

Florence 254

Fokshany peace negotiations, 210, 215, 217

Fonvizin, Denis 324

Fox, Charles James 298–9

France

stranglehold on European diplomacy 24–5

and War of American Independence (1775–83) 263

commercial treaty with Russia (1787) 298

Russia joins the anti-French coalition (1798) 301–2

pornographic journalism 307

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 18

Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg 25

Frederick II, King of Prussia (Frederick the Great) 24, 36, 68, 105, 153, 157, 184, 188, 320

marriage to Elisabeth Christine 30

promotes C’s father 35

dislike of the Court 37

Enlightened administration 38

Bestuzhev affair 50

pleased at C’s engagement 53

and Peter III’s plans to attack the Danes 120

preoccupied by internal reconstruction 186

and Poniatowski’s election as king of Poland 186, 187

financial embarrassments of the Seven Years’ War 194

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

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