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An Autocrat at Work and Play soon go through a “better phase.” Lestocq concurred. But the empress was s urprised that neither Catherine nor Peter was in any hurry. After lengthy discussions, she set the date of the ceremony, irrevocably. The most s uperb weddings of the century would take place on August 21, 1745.

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Footnotes

2. A pejorative name signifying “Razumovsky’s mother”.

3. K. Waliszewski, op. cit.