In terms of published Western histories, I have used as my reference books the works of Isabel de Madariaga and J. T. Alexander, along with Marc Raeff, David Ransel, Roger Bartlett (Human Capital), John LeDonne (Ruling Russia), Anthony Cross (on the British in Russia), Lord and Zamoyski (on Poland) and Kinross and Mansel (on Constantinople). Of Potemkin's previous biographers, Bruckner is the most important, while Soloveytchik is useful but lacks all references.
archives, periodicals and abbreviations used in notes and bibliography
AAE Archives des Affairs Etrangeres, Quai d'Orsay, Paris, volumes 68-139
AGAD Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie
AGS Arkhiv Gosudarstvennogo Soveta
AHR American History Review
AKV Arkhiv Knyaza Vorontsova
AVPRI Arkhiv Vneshnyey Politiki Rossiyskhoy Imperii
B&F Joseph II und Graf Ludwig Cobenzclass="underline" Ihr Briefwechsel Fontes Rerum
Austriacarum, ed. A. Beer and J. Fiedler, Vienna 1873
BM British Museum, London
С ASS/CSS Canadian American Slavic Studies!Canadian Slavic Studies
CHOIDR Chteniya v Imperatorskom Obshchestve Istorii Drevnostyey Ros- siyskikh
CMRS Cahiers du Monde Russe et Sovietique
CtG/CII Catherine the Great/the Second, Empress of Russia
DVS Dukh Velikogo Suvorova Hi Anekdoty Podlinnyye о Knyaze Ita- liyskoye. Grafe Alexandre Vasileviche Suvorove-Rymnikskom, St Petersburg 1808
FtG/FII Frederick the Great/the Second, King of Prussia
GAOO Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Odesskoy Oblasti
GAP/GAPT Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin (-Tavrichesky)
GARF Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Rossiskoy Federatskii, Moscow
GIM О PI Gosudarstvenny Istoricheskiy Muzyey Otdel Pismennykh Istochnikov
GPB Gosudarstvennaya Publishnaya Biblioteka
H Sir James Harris, ist Earl of Malmesbury
HZ Historische Zeitschrift
IRLI Institut Russkoy Literatury Akademii Nauk SSSR
ITUAK Izvestiya Tavricheskoy Uchenoy Arkhivoy Komissii
IV Istoricheskiye Vestnik
IZ Istoricheskiy Zapiski
J В Jeremy Bentham
JII Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
KD M. I. Kutuzov, Dokumenty, Moscow 1950-6, volumes 1-5
KFZ Kamer Fureskiy Zhurnal
L V. S. Lopatin, ed. Ekaterina II i G. A. Potemkin, Lichnaya Perepiska
1769-91, Moscow 1997
MIRF Materialy dlya istorii Russkogo flota
N-S Charles, Prince de Nassau-Siegen
PRO Public Record Office, London
PSZ Polnoye Sobraniye Zakonov
RA Russkiy Arkhiv 1863-1917
RGADA Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov, Moscow
RGIA Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Istoricheskiy Arkhiv, St Petersburg
RGVIA Rossiskiy Gosudarstvenny Voenno-Istoricheskiy Arkhiv, Moscow
RP Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, Russkiye Portrety xxviii i xix sto-
letiy (Portraits Russes), St Petersburg, 1906-13, volumes 1-5
RS Russkaya Starina 1870-1918
RV Russkiy Vestnik
Stanislas-Augustus (Poniatowski), King of Poland (Sir) Samuel Bentham
Sbornik Voenno-Istoricheskikh Materialov, St Petersburg, 1893-5 A. V. Suvorov, Dokumenty, ed G. P. Mescheryakov, Moscow 1949-53, volumes 1-4 Severny Arkhiv
Slavonic and East European Review Senatskiy Arkhiv
Sbornik Istoricheskikh Materialov po Istorii Kubanskoyo Kazachego Voyska 1737-1901, ed 1.1. Dmitrenko, St Petersburg 1896 Sbornik Imperatorskogo Russkogo Istoricheskogo Obshchestva Tavricheskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti Voprosy Istorii