Terrible tsarinas

4.

Cf. Waliszewski, L’Heritage de Pierre le Grand.

5. Cf. Daria Olivier, op. cit.

6. Details provided by Essipov: “L’Exil du prince Menshikov,” Annales de la Patrie, 1861, and cited by Waliszewski, op. cit.

8. Waliszewski, op. cit.

9. Menshikov’s two other children, his son Alexander and his daughter Alexandra, were recalled from exile only under the following reign. 10. The future Peter III, who would marry Catherine the Great. 11. Cited by Soloviov: Histoire de Russie, quoted by K Waliszewski, op. cit.