Simon Dixon - Catherine the Great

Sofia, near Tsarskoye Selo 250, 265, 278, 314

Sollogub, Countess Natalia 284

Solms, Count 126, 195, 207, 216

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 171–2

Somov, Konstantin 331

Sophia, Tsarevna 12, 13

Sophia Dorothea of Württemberg see Maria Fëdorovna, Grand Duchess Sorbonne, Paris 188, 190

Soubise, Cardinal de 142

Spanish Succession, War of the (1701–14) 25

Sparrow, Charles 210

Spectator, The 198

Speransky, Mikhail 325

Spiridov, Admiral 202

Sreznevsky, Ivan 322

Stable Chancellery, Moscow 59

Stählin, Jacob 64, 77, 111, 115, 117, 128, 136

Stalin, Joseph 171–2

Stanislaw August Poniatowski, King of Poland see Poniatowski Starov, Ivan 246–7, 275, 294, 305

State Duma 331

Stedingk, Baron 294–9

Steele, Richard 198

Steen, Jan: Revellers 193

Stephen the Little 196

Sterne, Laurence: Sentimental Journey

292

Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) 23, 24, 25, 28, 32, 333

Stockholm, Court of 92

Stockholm, Peace of (1720) 25

Stone Island 140

Stowe, Buckinghamshire 94

Stroganov, Alexander 140, 141–2, 160, 171, 172, 178, 193, 250, 251, 256, 261, 302, 321

Stroganov, Baron Sergey 95

Stroganov Palace 115, 141

Stroganova, Countess 143, 177

Sudermania, duke of 314

Sukhodolsky, Vasily: Astronomy 110

Sumarokov, Alexander 22, 51, 122, 327

Ode to Potëmkin 237

‘On the First Day of 1763’ 17

Sinav and Truvor 110, 146

Sumarokov, Peter 14, 322

Summer Annenhof, Moscow 51

Summer Garden, St Petersburg 36, 128, 256, 258

Summer House, St Petersburg 81–2, 83

Summer Palace, Moscow (1730) 47

Summer Palace, St Petersburg (1741–4) 55, 57, 61, 68, 78, 83, 113, 128, 145, 149, 180, 236, 258, 295, 320

Sutherland, Richard 307–8

Suvorov, Field Marshal 235, 291, 296, 299, 300, 303, 309, 311, 322, 333

Svenskund 293

Svinin, Pavel 328

Sweden

Great Northern War 9, 288

as the dominant Baltic power in the seventeenth century 24

spoils of the Thirty Years’ War 24

Russia celebrates peace with (1744) 65

suspension of the 1720 constitution 217

restoration of the monarchy’s absolute powers 217

and Nevsky 246

Swedish fleet 290, 293

Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels 199

Synodal Palace, Moscow 9

Tacitus: Annals 101

Taininskoye 151, 160

Talyzin, Admiral Ivan 14, 124

Tamerlane 237

Tames, John 9

Tatars 17, 167, 168, 174, 246

Tatishchevo 233

Tauride Palace, St Petersburg 46, 299–300, 304, 305–6, 311

Gobelins Room 299

Winter Garden 300, 305

converted into stables 320

Tauride province 263–4, 280

Teplov, Grigory 9, 125, 130, 132, 212

supervision of Kiriil Razumovsky’s education 131

translates Araja libretti 131

drafts C’s early edicts 131

Commission on Church Lands 131

Imperial Assembly secretary 133

‘theatres of piety’ 54

Theodore I, king of Corsica 93

Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) 24

Three Bishops (ship) 202 ‘thunder-rock’ 204–5 Times, The 166, 289

Titian: Danaë 193

Todorsky, Archimandrite Simon 51, 60

Tooke, William 123, 299–300

Torre, M. de la 257

Torzhok 272, 273

monastery of Boris and Gleb 273–4

Transfiguration, Cathedral of the, St Petersburg 45

Treasury (British) 98

Treasury (Russian) 308

Trezzini, Domenico 42, 151

Trinity Cathedral, St Petersburg 246–7, 294, 315

Trinity Lavra 79, 170

Trinity St Sergius monastery 49, 51, 67, 85, 124, 150–51, 239 ‘Triumphant Minerva’ (street pageant) 22

Tronchin, François 193

Troppau, capture of (1758) 114

Troshchinsky, Dimitry 311

Trubetskaya, Princess Yevdokiya 190, 230

Trubetskoy, Prince Nikita 116, 121

C’s wedding 62

and C’s coronation 7, 8, 9, 13, 21

Trubetskoy family 14

Tsar Boris’s Ponds 127, 170

Tsaritsyn 236

Tsaritsyno 276, 326

Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg 15, 46, 55, 69, 72, 76, 79, 82, 95, 100, 108, 109, 126, 137, 177, 178, 189, 192, 193, 197, 205, 209, 210, 215, 216, 219, 220, 223, 229, 230, 233–4, 243, 249, 250, 258, 261, 264, 266, 267, 268, 274, 278, 281, 289, 293, 304, 305, 312, 314, 322, 323

Picture Gallery 220

redesign of (Charles Cameron) 258–9

Lyon room 259

Chinese room 259

Arabesque room 259, 294

C’s study 259

bronze doors for C’s bedroom 262–3

Cameron Gallery 299

C’s library 306

Tula 288

Turchaninov, Peter 312

Turgenev, Alexander 325, 328

Turgenev, Nikolay 325

Turin: royal library 142

Turkish navy 202–3

Tuscany 254

Tver 158, 159, 160, 162, 166, 273, 322

Tver (C’s galley) 161, 162, 164

Tver province 240, 275

Ufa 230

Uglich 161

Ukhtomsky, F.F. 150

Ukraine see Little Russia Ulrich, Duke Anton 29

Ural mountains 228, 233, 235

urban government 271

Utkin, Nikolay: Lady with a dog 323

Valeriani, Giuseppe 76, 141

Vallin de la Mothe, Jean Baptiste 136–7, 138, 191

Vanbrugh, Sir John 138–9

Varel, Oldenbourg 34

Varennes 301

Vasilchikov, Alexander 230

C’s new favourite 216, 217

no substitute for Grigory Orlov 218

C’s boredom with him 225, 232

supplanted by Grigory Potëmkin 229, 232

Vasilevsky Island, St Petersburg 44, 211

Vechelde, palace of, near Brunswick 29

Veilly, Jean-Louis de 15, 21

Veldten, Georg 137, 138, 191, 258

Velë 265, 278

Venice 254

Venturi, Franco 196

Verdi, Giuseppe: Un ballo in maschera 308

Verela 294

Vernet, Pastor Jacob 141

Versailles 29–33, 57, 76, 94, 147, 193, 288

Vicenza 279

Vienna 207, 254, 262, 270

Imperial Court 33

Virgil: Aeneid 294

Virgin of Kazan 60

Vladimir, Prince 54

Vladimir, St 285

Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke 332

Vladislavova, Praskovya 13, 99

Voice, The (newspaper) 331

Volga River 155, 158–61, 163, 166, 168

Volkonsky, Prince 213

Volkov, Dimitry 99, 118–19, 134, 162, 171

Volkov, Fëdor 22

Voltaire 67, 68, 93, 109, 152, 222, 224, 239, 295, 310

correspondence with C see under Catherine II the Great

Huber’s cycle of portraits 193

bust commissioned by C 261

death 261

Anecdotes on Peter the Great 77

Candide 191

Vorobëvo 80

Voronezh 278

Vorontsov, Count Alexander 89, 96, 107, 134, 268, 270, 282, 287, 290, 292

Vorontsov, Chancellor Count Mikhail 62, 73, 94, 96, 97, 106–7, 111, 114, 133, 142

Vorontsov, Count Roman Larionovich 119

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

Wagner, Pastor Friedrich 26–7, 28

Wailly, Charles de 288

Wallachia 203, 229

Walpole, George, 3rd earl 261

Walpole, Horace 241, 261, 308–9