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chapter 2: the guardsman and the grand duchess: catherine's
coup
This account of Catherine's life up to the coup is based on Catherine's own Memoirs, Anisimov's Empress Elisabeth, pp 230-45, Madariaga's Russia pp 1-30 and J. T. Alexander Catherine the Great: Life and Legend pp 17-60.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 87.
Alexander, CtG pp 3 2-3.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 pp 182, 101.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 PP II4~I5> I4I- See Chancellor A. Bestuzhev's instructions to Grand Duke Peter on his rudeness and silliness quoted in Anisimov, Empress Elisabeth pp 234-5. Alexander, CtG pp 42-3.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 P I][8-
CtG, Memoirs 1955 pp 196, 200, 161.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 225.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 211.
CtG, Memoirs 1955Р301. Anisimov, Empress Elisabeth pp 242-3.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 240. Madariaga, Russia pp 15-37. Alexander, CtG pp 1-4, 55-60.
SA, Memoires vol 1 p 42.
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CtG, Memoirs 1955 pp 307-9.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 310.
PRO SPF 91/82, Charles, Lord Cathcart 29 December 1769, St Petersburg.
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CtG, Memoirs 1955 'Last Thoughts of HIM Elisabeth Petrovna' pp 329-38 is the major source for this account of the death of the Empress Elisabeth. Anisimov, Empress Elisabeth pp 245-8. Also Philip Longworth, The Three Empresses pp 228- 9, Robert Coughlan, Elisabeth and Catherine pp 172-4.
Anisimov, Empress Elisabeth pp 241, 242-3, 245-8. Catherine II's letter to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams quoting from Count Stanislas Poniatowski's letter to herself is cited in Anisimov, pp 240-1. General Lieven is quoted in CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 267.