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25. S. Panchulidzev, Istoriia Kavalergardov 1724–1799–1899 , 4 vols. (SPb, 1899), i: 254–68, at p. 260.
26. Decree of 5 May 1758, quoted in N. Findeizen, History of Music in Russia from Antiquity to 1800, 2: The Eighteenth Century , trans. S. W. Pring, eds. M. Velimirovií and C. R. Jensen (Bloomington, IN, 2008), 30.
28. Anisimov, Elizaveta Petrovna , 132–3, notes a tradition dating back to the empress’s contemporaries.
29. C. Koslofsky, ‘Princes of Darkness: The Night at Court, 1650–1750’, Journal of Modern History , 79, 2 (2007), 236, 244, 251ff., 258ff.
30. See Zitser, Transfigured Kingdom , passim.
31. Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great , 267–9; P. Keenan, ‘The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700–1762)’, in Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825 , eds. W. Rosslyn and A. Tosi (Basingstoke, 2007), 127–9.
32. Manstein, Memoirs , 319.
33. Manstein, Memoirs , 248–9.
34. Vigor, Letters , 75.
35. Keenan, ‘The Function of Fashion’, 132–3.
36. Bil’basov, i: 166, n. 2.
37. C. M. Foust, Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia’s trade with China and its setting, 1727–1805 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1969), 105–63 (esp. 139–41), 357; ‘Kitaiskie tovary v Rossii XVIII v.’, Istoricheskii arkhiv , 2006:4, 197–200.
38. SIRIO , cxlviii: 104, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 17/28 July 1750.
39. P. Mansel, Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II (New Haven, CT, 2005), xiii–xiv and passim .
40. Sbornik Biografii Kavalergardov 1724–1762 , ed. S. Panchulidzev (SPb, 1901), 342 (I. I. Babaev); Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 31.
41. Manstein, Memoirs , 248.
42. Sochineniia , xii: 211; Russkii pridvornyi kostium ot Petra I do Nikolaia II iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha Sankt-Peterburg (M, 1999), 28–31.
43. N. Iu. Bolotina, ‘Zhenshchiny roda Vorontsovykh v povsednevnoi zhizni imperatorskogo dvora XVIII v.’, in E.R. Dashkova i zolotoi vek Ekateriny , ed. L. Tychinina (M, 2006), 142, 150–3.
44. Sochineniia , xii: 301, 211–2, 252–4.
45. For comparisons, see Duindam, Vienna and Versailles , ch. 3.
46. KfZh (1748), suppl., 120–32, 149 (these figures are almost certainly underestimates); K. Pisarenko, Povsednevnaia zhizn’ russkogo dvora v tsarstvovanie Elizavety Petrovny (M, 2003), 47–64, esp. 49, 59–60. On titles, see O. G. Ageeva, Evropeizatsiia russkogo dvora 1700–1796 gg. (M, 2006), 81–96.
47. C. de Wassenaer, A Visit to St Petersburg, 1824–1825 , trans. and ed. I. Vinogradoff (Norwich, 1994), 58.
48. KfZh (1748), suppl., 140–9.
49. S. M. Troitskii, Finansovaia politika russkogo absoliutizma v XVIII veke (M, 1966), 246; PSZ , XIII: 9757, 2 June 1750.
50. KfZh (1748), suppl., 106–8.
51. Blanning, Power of Culture , 59, 32.
52. Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 65–6, 68.
53. Puteshestvie brat’ev Demidovykh po Evrope: Pis’ma i podnevnye Zhurnaly 1750–1761 gody , ed. G. A. Pobedimova (M, 2006), 101.
54. N. W. Wraxall, Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw and Vienna in the years 1777, 1778 and 1779 , 2 vols. (London, 1806), ii: 213.
55. Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 104–5.
56. A. I. Uspenskii, Imperatorskie dvortsy , i: 34, Zapiski Imperatorskago Moskovskago Arkhaeologicheskago Instituta , xxiii (M, 1913).
57. I. Reyfman, Vasilii Trediakovsky: The fool of the ‘new’ Russian literature (Stanford, CA, 1990), 239.
58. Marker, Imperial Saint , 216–8 and passim .
59. Quoted in Anisimov, Rossiia bez Petra , 73.
60. Mooser, i: 247.
61. Quoted in K. Ospovat, ‘Towards a cultural history of the Court of Elizaveta Petrovna’, SGECRN , 35 (2007), 38.
62. S. W. Mintz, Sweetness and power: The place of sugar in modern history (Harmondsworth, 1986), 88–94.
63. Sipovskaia, ‘Obedy’, 161.
64. Starikova, doc. 936; N. Kazakevich, Tsarskie zastol’ia v XVIII veke: Tseremonial i dekorativnoe oformlenie paradnykh stolov pri dvore imperatrits Elizavety i Ekateriny II (SPb, 2003), 22–4.
76. E. I. Indova, Dvortsovoe khoziaistvo v Rossii: Pervaia polovina XVIII veka , (M, 1964), 202–15, passim . For fruit from Astrakhan, see PSZ, xii: 8997, 20 July 1744; 9186, 8 July 1745.
77. E. Justice, A Voyage to Russia (York, 1739), 16.
78. Pisarenko, Povsednevnaia zhizn’ , 515–20; the list probably dates from 1747. For information relating to 1740–1, see Vnutrennii byt Russkago gosudarstva , i: 366–402.
79. Bespiatykh, Peterburg Anny Ioannovny , 141 (C. R. Berch).
80. PSZ , xii: 9161, 27 May 1745; N. I. Batorevich, Ekateringof: Istoriia dvortsovo-parkovogo ansamblia (SPb, 2006), 83–9.
81. Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 76–7.
82. Sochineniia , xii: 117.
83. I. Vinogradoff, ‘Russian Missions to London, 1711–1789: Further Extracts from the Cottrell Papers’, Oxford Slavonic Papers , NS 15 (1982), 71, C. to R. Cottrell, 1741.
87. A. A. Kedrintsev, ‘Iantarnyi zal v Sankt-Peterburge’, in I. P. Sautov, et al, Iantarnaia komnata: Tri veka istorii (SPb, 2003), 110–6. The Amber Room was later transferred to Tsarskoe Selo.
88. Sochineniia , xii: 241, 291.
89. Sochineniia , xii: 181.
90. Sochineniia , xii: 183.
91. B. Kemp, ‘Sir Francis Dashwood’s Diary of his Visit to St Petersburg in 1733’, SEER , 38 (1959–60), 201.
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6. Quoted in extenso by Zamoyski, Last King , 58.
7. KfZh (1755), 68–70: 77 men and 44 women were present.
8. V. A. Korentsvit, ‘Krepost’ Peterstadt v Oranienbaume’, in Pamiatniki istorii i kul’tury Peterburga , ed. A. V. Pozdnukhov (SPb, 1994), 208–22.
9. Sochineniia , xii: 307, 355–6.
10. AKV , xxxiii: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to F. D. Bekhteev, 15 June 1756.
12. Sochineniia , xii: 117; Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 78.
13. AKV , xxxi: 86, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, 19 Dec. 1758.
14. A. N. Petrov, Savva Chevakinskii (Leningrad, 1983), 72, 75–6, 79.
15. Iu. V. Trubinov, Stroganovskii dvorets (SPb, 1996), 38–61.
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18. Sipovskaia, ‘Obedy’, 162–3.
19. AKV , xxxi: 83, M. L. Vorontsov to M. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin, Feb 1758; 101, M. L. to A. R. Vorontsov, undated (Jan/Feb 1760); 105, 4/15 Apr. 1760; 110, 24 Oct. 1760.
20. Sochineniia , xii: 391–2.
21. Correspondance , 70, 23 Aug. 1756; 81, 24 Aug.
22. AKV , xxxiii: 32–48. By the same token, no account was taken of Vorontsov’s artistic expenses, for which see S. O. Androsov, ‘Zabytyi russkii metsenat–Graf Mikhail Vorontsov’, PKNO , 2000 (M, 2001), 246–77.
23. SIRIO , clxviii: 466, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 7 July 1753.
42. KfZh (1756), 51, 102; Benois, Tsarskoe Selo , 246–8.
43. Correspondance , 4, 3 Aug. 1756.
44. Sochineniia , xii: 227.
45. Sochineniia , xii: 224, 219, 225.
46. PSZ , xii: 8908, 3 Apr. 1744.
47. SIRIO , cxlviii: 295, Guy Dickens to Newcastle, 26 Nov. 1751; KfZh (1751), 108–9.
48. Sochineniia , xii: 288–9.
49. Sochineniia , xii: 348.
50. Correspondance , 34, 11 Aug. 1756; 45, 18 Aug.
51. Correspondance , 145, 11 Sept. 1756.
52. Frotier de la Messelière, Voyage à Pétersbourg, ou nouveaux mémoires sur la Russie (Paris, 1803), 217–8, punctuation adjusted.
53. Sochineniia , xii: 393–5, where the event is misdated to 1758. The mistake recurs in A. L. Porfir’eva, ‘Muzykal’nye razvlecheniia Petra Fedorovicha v Oranienbaume’, in Archivo Russo–Italiano , IV, eds. Daniela Rizzi and A. Shishkin (Salerno, 2005), 340, and also in The Memoirs of Catherine the Great , eds. M. Cruse and H. Hoogenboom (New York, 2005), 178. Alexander, 51, gives 17 June 1757. The chronology of this period in C.’s memoirs is especially unreliable.
54. Zamoyski, Last King , 55.
55. Quoted in Alexander, 51.
56. KfZh (1757), 83.
57. J. L. H. Keep, ‘Feeding the Troops: Russian Army Supply Policies during the Seven Years’ War’, Canadian Slavonic Papers , 28–31 (1987).