Terrible tsarinas

8. Ibid.

9. Cf. Miliukov, Seignobos and Eisenmann, Histoire de Russie. 10. Elizabeth’s coup d’etat and the remarks made at the time were reported in numerous documents dating from that period, including Les Archives du prince M. L. Vorontsov, and collected by K. Waliszewski, in L’Heritage de Pierre le Grand.

Peter the Great, by G. Kneller. London, Kensington Palace.

Photo A. C. Cooper (copyright reserved).

St. Petersburg in the time of Peter the Great.

The Neva Embankment, the Admiralty, and the Academy of Sciences.

Bibliotheque nationale de France, Prints Division. Photo B.N.

View of the Isaakievsky Bridge and St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the Winter Palace, and the Hermitage, in St. Petersburg.

Photo Giraudon.

The Winter Palac e, St. Petersburg, 1843.

Russian School, Sodovnikov.

Preserved in Peterhof Library. Photo Josse.

The grand palace and the park at Tsarskoye Selo.

Engraving by Damane-Demartrais.

Catherine I (1682-1727), wife of Peter I (The Great).

Empress of Russia (1725-1727).