Henry Troyat, Catherine the Great p 175.
BM Add MS 15,875, Sir George (later Earl) Macartney to Lady Holland February 1766.
Philip Mansel, Le Charmeur d'Europe p 141.
G. Casanova, History of my Life vol 10, ch 7 p 141.
Mansel, Charmeur p 96.
Casanova, vol 10 ch 7 p 14.
Chevalier de Corberon, Un Diplomat frangais a la cour de Catherine II vol 2 p 95, 13 January 1777.
Macartney to Lady Holland (see note 39).
Prince de Ligne, Fragments vol 1 pp 101-2.
О. I. Yeliseeva, Perepiska Ekateriny II i G. A. Potemkina perioda vtoroy russko- turetskoy voyny 1787-91 p 23, CtG to P. V. Zavadovsky.
RA (1877), vol 1 p 468 Count A. I. Ribeaupierre, Zapiski grafa Ribopera.
V. O. Kliuchevsky, Empress Catherine p 307.
Ligne, Letters (Stael) vol 2 p 45, Ligne to CtG
CtG's remarks to V. Popov in N. Shilder, Imperator Aleksandr I vol 1 pp 279-80.
Comte Roger de Damas, Memoires p 99.
Shcherbatov p 237.
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Pushkin Polnoye Sobraniye Sochineniya vol 12 p 177, GAP to S. Sheshkovsky. See also Georg von Helbig, 'Russkiye izbranniye i sluchainye liudi', RS 56 (10) 1887 p
2.4.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 pp 355-7, CtG Frank Confession to GAP 1774. GARF 728.1.425.1-5. Also CtG, Sochineniya vol 12 pp 697-9.
CtG's correspondence with F. M. Grimm and others is to be found in SIRIO 23.
SIRIO 23. See above.
Casanova vol 10 ch 7 p 139.
Castera vol 2 pp 370-5.
Castera vol 2 p 401. Philip Mansel, Pillars of Monarchy p 31.
Casanova vol 10 ch 7 pp 101-5.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 Autobiographical Fragments pp 358-9, The Masked Ball.
Joseph II und Graf Ludwig Cobenzl, ed A. Beer and J. Fiedler (B&F), vol 1 p 16, Cobenzl to Joseph II 5 May 1780. Coxe vol 2 p 97.
CtG, Memoirs 1955 p 194.
John Parkinson, A Tour of Russia, Siberia and the Crimea p 211.
Quoted from T. Livanova, Russkaya muzkal'naya kultura XVIII veka vol 2 p 406, in Madariaga, Russia p 329.
Shcherbatov p 237.
SIRIO 19 (1876): 297, Sir Robert Gunning to Earl of Suffolk 28 July/8 August 1772.
Ransel, Politics p 76. SIRIO 12: 202-3, Sir George Macartney to Earl of Sandwich 18 March 1765.
Krasnobaev p 490.
K. L. Blum, Ein russischer Staatsman, Countess Sievers to Count Ya. Sievers 17 April 1774, quoted in A. G. Brtickner, Potemkin p 26.
Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin p 17.
Samoilov cols 597-8.
Saint-Jean, Lebensbeschreibung des Gregor Alexandrowitsch Potemkin des Tau- riers, translator's preface, and chs 1-12; Waliszewski, Autour d'un trone vol 1 pp 114, 146. Semevsky, GAPT p 490.
RGADA 18.202.2-3. Bishop Porphiry, 'Information', ZOOID 13: 187-8. Seme- vesky, GAPT pp 490-1.
Porphiry pp 187-8.
Samoilov cols 602-3.
Byron, Don Juan, Canto IX: 84.
Saint-Jean ch 1-12. RS (1872) 5 p 466, Family information about Prince Potemkin. Semevsky, GAPT p 493.
Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin p 20; Krasnobaev p 490.
Castera vol 2 p 270. Semevsky, GAPT p 493.
Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin, p 20.
CtG's Frank Confession pp 355-6. Semevsky, GAPT p 492-3 GARF 728.1.425.1- 5. CtG, Sochineniya vol 12 pp 697-9, CtG to GAP March 1774. SIRIO 26 (1879): 309-10. The Sardinian envoy Marquis de Parelo claims that GAP went to an occult hierophant to try to save his eye.
Samoilov cols 602-3.
RS (1872) 5 p 466, Family information about Prince Potemkin. RGADA 1.85.1.343, L 11, CII to GAP. Catherine here in early 1774 tells GAP that G. Orlov always spoke well of him.
Bilbasov, Istoriya vol 2 pp 519-21.
RS (1872) 5 p 466, family information about of Prince Potemkin. Saint-Jean chs 1-12. Semevsky, GAPT p 493.
Waliszewski, Autour d'un trone vol 1 p 38.
Krasnobaev p 491. Saint-Jean chs 1-12. Countess Elisabeth Razumov Skaya was later placed in a monastery by her father following her secret marriage to Count Peter Apraxin. GAP interceded on her behalf with K. G. Razumovsky. Semevsky, GAPT pp 492-3.
Earl of Buckinghamshire, Despatches and Correspondence vol 2 p 232.
Soloviev vol 14 pp 48-9 quoted in Madariaga, Russia, pp 139-50.
Alexander, CtG pp 103-15; Madariaga, Russia pp 139-50.
Kazan University 17.262.3-2300, 25-2708/56-5705.
This account of the Commission is based on Madariaga, Russia pp 139-83, and Alexander, CtG pp 100-2, 112-20.
RGADA 268.890.291-4, Geroldmeysterskaya contora (Heraldic Office).
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Voltaire, Oeuvres completes vol 58 p 39, CII to Voltaire 4/15 August 1769. Christopher Duffy, Russia's Military Way to the West pp 130-6. SIRIO 54 (1886): 161.
RS (1895) 83 pp 199-200, Comte de Langeron, quoted in Duffy, Russia's Military Way p 125.
Frederick the Great, Oeuvres vol 23 p 89, quoted in Giles MacDonogh, Frederick the Great p 299.
Duffy, Russia's Military Way pp 130-6. Russian official salaries are from LeDonne, Ruling Russia pp 363-4.