Simon Dixon - Catherine the Great

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

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

Macartney, Sir George 143, 145–6, 153, 184, 187

Madariaga, Isabel de 264, 301

Madrid, Court of 261

Maggiotto, Domenico: Urania teaching a youth 241

Maikov, Vasily 140, 169

Maintenon, Madame de 31

Makaryev monastery 161

Makhaev, Mikhailo 44

Makulov, Prince 213

Manfredini, Vincenzo Apollo and Minerva 147

Carlo Magno [ Charlemagne ] 146

Mann, Sir Horace 91

Manstein (Austrian ambassador) 71, 72

Manteufel, Count 30

Marble Palace 179, 216, 313

Mardefeld, Baron 52

Maria Fëdorovna, Grand Duchess

(Princess Sophia Dorothea of Wurttemberg) 268, 281

health 220

becomes Paul’s dutiful second consort 244–5

on Paul’s Grand Tour 254

birthday 295

births 313

and C’s lying-in-state 318

Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Consort of Joseph II 169

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria 18, 99, 191, 207, 219, 253

Maria Theresa, Infanta 57

Markov, Alexander 191

Marmontel, Jean-François: Bélisaire 162–3

Mary, Blessed Virgin, the female Russian monarchs associated with 17

Marian imagery prominent in Moscow 17

Mass, Michelangelo 81

Masson, Charles: Secret Memoirs of Russia 314

Matveyev, Artamon 13

Maundy Thursday 100, 149, 160

Maupeou, Chancellor 226

Medal Committees 210

Melissino, Colonel 128, 295

Memel, East Prussia 105

Menelaws, Adam 274

Mengs, Anton Raphael: Perseus and Andromeda 261, 262

Menshikov, Alexander 83, 84

Menshikov Palace, Lefortovo 46, 213, 214

Messenger of Europe (journal) 323

Mikeshin, M.O. 330

Mikhail Fëdorovich, Tsar of Russia 62, 137, 164

Mikhailovsky Palace, St Petersburg 57, 320

Mikhelson, General 235, 236

Minetti, Francesco 33

Mirabeau, Honoré Riqueti, comte de 310

Miranda, Francisco de 284

Mirovich, guardsman 155 ‘Mirror of the Police, The’ 255

Misere (a Piedmontese) 111

Mislavsky, Samuil 213

Mogilëv, Belorussia 250–53, 264, 333

Moldavia 203, 229, 235

Molière 200

Georges Dandin 203, 255

monarchy

intensely personal in Russia 20

exercise of power in early-modern Europe 31–2, 75–9

cultural rivalry between monarchs 32

French kings’ daily life 33

Austrian emperors’ comparative seclusion 33

in C’s Instruction 172

pure monarchy 277

Monastery of Miracles, Moscow 170–71

Monastery of the Caves, Kiev 54, 284–5

monastic lands 52, 131, 153–4

Monomakh, Vladimir 18

Monplaisir, Peterhof 69, 83, 113, 140, 197–8

Monsieur Tom (a favourite greyhound) 266

Montaigne, Michel 68

Montenegro 196

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de 93, 172, 182, 198, 277, 283, 325

On the Causes of the Grandeur and Decline of the Roman Republic 67

On the Spirit of the Laws 67, 101, 157, 225–6

Montgolfier balloon (Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier) 268

Mordvins 168

Morkov, Arkady 308, 315

Moscow

described 6–7

C’s triumphal entry into (1762) 6, 7, 11

C’s dislike for 11, 159

Marian imagery in 17

Plague of 1 771 206, 215

C’s 1775 visit 237–8

C’s 1785 visit 272–6, 281

fall of (1812) 326

Moscow Armoury 150

Moscow Foundling Home 129–30, 140, 155, 208, 212, 281

Moscow River 212

Moscow Telegraph 327

Moscow University 7, 160, 232

Mounsey, Dr James 113

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 234, 254

Mstislav Vladimirovich 282

Mstislavl 282

Munich: Elector of Bavaria’s palace 76

Münnich, Field Marshal 123

Muravëv-Apostol, Ivan 326

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban 304

Rest on the Flight to Egypt 194

Musorgsky, Modest 161

Myatleva, Praskovia (née Saltykova) 322

Mytishchi 273

Naples 6, 196, 254

Napoleon Bonaparte 326

Narva 40

Naryshkin, Alexander 127, 245, 321

Naryshkin, Dimitry 211

Naryshkin, Lev 14, 127, 142, 179, 193, 197, 210, 215, 221, 225, 245, 268, 272, 279, 280, 287, 314

C on 143–4

Naryshkin, Peter 14

Naryshkin, Semën

guides C into the Russian empire 39, 40

a future Marshal of Elizabeth’s Court 39

C’s wedding 59

Temple of Diana at Tsarskoye Selo 205

Naryshkin family 14

Naryshkina, Anna 291

Naryshkina, Katerina 210

Naryshkina, Natalia 210

Naryshkina, Yelena 18–19, 118

Nassau, Princess of 220