Simon Dixon - Catherine the Great

Walpole, Sir Robert 261

War of American Independence (1775–83) 263

Warsaw 219, 301, 309, 311

Washington, George 275

Watteau, Antoine 193, 304

Wedgwood, Josiah 261

Weimar Republic 33

Weitbrecht, Johann 310

Westminster Abbey, London 16

Whately, Thomas: Observations on Modern Gardening 210

Whitworth, Charles 323

Wilkes, John 261

Wilmot, Catherine 321, 323

Wilmot, Martha 321, 322, 323

Winter Annenhof (later Golovin Palace), Moscow 47

Winter Palace, St Petersburg 45, 55–6, 58, 60, 66, 79, 278

Winter Palace, St Petersburg (stone) 95, 119–20, 121, 123, 130, 135, 136–9, 181, 189, 200, 221, 225, 265, 269, 280, 299, 302, 315

Amber Room 83, 231

Chevalier Gardes’ Room 132, 137, 318

Portrait Room 137

Diamond Room 138, 232, 315

Mirror Room 138

library 138

massive proportions 138

audience chamber 141

Orlov’s rooms above C’s 145

theatre 146

extravagant masquerade (1770) 205

Potëmkin’s apartments 233

and Sophia’s reception in Russia 245

great flood of 1 777 258

Constantine’s apartments 313

St George’s Hall 315

and C’s death 316, 317–19

Grand Gallery 318

requiem service for Peter III 319

loss of interiors in great fire of 1 837 138

Winter Palace, St Petersburg (temporary wooden structure) 95, 112, 113, 115, 147

Wolff, Jacob 97–8 ‘World of Art’ group 331

Wörlitz 32

Wortman, Richard 332

Wouvermans, Philip 193

Wraxall, Nathaniel 214, 235

Württemberg, Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of 31

Württemberg, Frederick, Prince of 281

Württemberg, Zelmira, Princess of (Princess Auguste of Brunswick) 281

Yaik Cossack host 228

Yakovlev, Savva 127, 163

Yakubovsky, Ivan 316

Yaroslavl 163–4, 165

Yauza River 10

Yekaterinburg, Siberia 209

Yekaterinburg fortress 84, 94

Yekaterinhof suburban palace 68, 82, 83, 234

Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) 280, 304, 311

Yekaterintal Palace, Reval 204

Yelagin, Ivan 130, 135, 165, 171, 178, 195, 234, 235, 333

a lifelong servant of C’s 131

arrested with Bestuzhev 132

connection with English Masonic lodges 132

and the Imperial theatres 148

Yenikale 239

Yermolov, Lieutenant Alexander 272, 274

relationship with C 270–71

the ‘white negro’ 270

rapid downfall 270

inveigled into an intrigue against Potëmkin 270

dismissed and sent abroad 270

extended ‘retirement’ 270

Yeropkin, Senator Peter 44, 206–7, 208

Yevreinov, Timofey 66, 99

Yorke, Charles 93

Young Court 65, 66, 69–70, 79, 90, 105, 133, 140, 141, 143, 178, 219, 222, 303

Yusupov, Nikolay 321

Zagryazhskaya, Natalia 328

Zaporozhian Cossacks 9, 238

Zatrapezny, Ivan 163

Zavadovsky, Peter 270, 278, 281, 282–3, 290, 324

relationship with C 28, 241, 242–3

promoted to major general 242

temporary retirement to Lyalichi 243

long career at Court 243

Commission of National Schools 248

and the Russo-Swedish War 293

and the second Russo-Turkish War 294

and Poland’s third partition 309–10

Zemtsov, Mikhail 44, 60

Zerbst, family seat at 24, 28, 33–6, 66, 106

Zherebstova, Olga 322–3

Zhurzha (now Giurgiu, Romania) 208

Zimmerman, Dr Johann 277, 280, 283, 321

Solitude considered with respect to its influence on the mind and the heart

271

Zips (Spisz) 207

Znamenskoye 127

Zorich, Semën 243, 251–2

Zorin, Andrey 297

Zorndorf, battle of (1758) 112

Zosima, Abbot 165

Zubov, Count Nikolay 315

Zubov, Platon 291, 294, 295, 300, 301, 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 314, 316, 322

Zubov, Valerian 296

Zwinger complex, Dresden 33

SIMON DIXONis professor of modern history and chairman of the School of History at the University of Leeds in England. He specializes in the history of imperial Russia, with particular focus on the eighteenth century and the Russian Orthodox Church. He is regularly invited to lecture on Russian culture to general audiences around the world and in the United States.

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Jacket art: Portrait of Catherine II of Russia

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