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22. Russian Journals , 206, Catherine to her sister, Alicia, 2 Dec. 1805.
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47. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams , 12 vols. (Philadelphia, PA, 1874–7), ii: 115.
48. PSZ , xxvi: 19,904, 5 June 1801.
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54. M. M. Speranskii, Proekty i zapiski , ed. S. N. Valk (Moscow-Leningrad, 1961), 20, 140.
55. Memoirs of Countess Golovine , 35.
56. For detailed references, see my essay ‘“Prosveshchenie”: Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Russia’, in Peripheries of the Enlightenment , eds. R. Butterwick, S. Davies and G. Sanchez-Espinoza, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (2008:01).
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78. C.A. Stoddard, Across Russia: From the Baltic to the Danube (London, 1892), 74, 40.
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88. N. Notovich, L’Empereur Alexandre III et son entourage (Paris, 1893), 93.
89. R. Wortman, ‘The Russian empress as mother’, in The family in imperial Russia: New lines of historical research , ed. D. L. Ransel (Urbana, IL, 1978), 61.
90. Sir G. Buchanan, My mission to Russia and other diplomatic memories , 2 vols. (London, 1923), i: 175–6.
91. John Hanbury-Williams, The Emperor Nicholas II: As I knew him (London, 1922) 58, diary, 4 Oct. 1915.
92. Suvorov, Pis’ma , 204, to I. M. [José] Ribas.
93. The plant’s formal name was cardamine nivalis : see A. K. Sytin, ‘P. S. Pallas, P. I. Shangin i Ekaterina Velikaia’, Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki , 2 (1997), 124.
94. Shcherbatov, 235.
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97. Shcherbatov, 255, 241–5, 251–3, (241). Compare Martha Wilmot’s reflections on a present given to Princess Dashkova: ‘It was the first present she ever receiv’d from Katherine the Second, & certainly serv’d to recall the most interesting period of a friendship which then existed assuredly, as Katherine was only a Grand Dutchess; but for which sentiment they say a Crown very very rarely leaves room & I doubt whether the Great Katherine form’d an exception to the general observation.’ Russian Journals , 159, Martha’s Journal, 1 Dec. 1805 NS.