The Princess Tarakanova. G. P. Danilevskii
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G. P. Danilevskii
The Princess Tarakanova
A Dark Chapter of Russian History
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664573889
Table of Contents
PART I. DIARY OF LIEUTENANT KONSOV.
CHAPTER IV. I SEE THE PRINCESS.
CHAPTER V. MY INTERVIEW WITH THE PRINCESS.
CHAPTER VI. THE PRINCESS ASKS ME TO ASSIST HER.
CHAPTER VII. I CONVEY A LETTER.
CHAPTER VIII. I DELIVER A LETTER.
CHAPTER IX. WE WILL BEFRIEND HER.
CHAPTER X. IS THE COUNT A TRAITOR?
CHAPTER XI. THE DEPARTURE FROM ROME.
CHAPTER XII. THE PRINCESS SEEKS MY ADVICE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE BOTTLE CAST INTO THE SEA.
CHAPTER XVII. EKATERINA AT MOSCOW.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRINCESS AT ST. PETERSBURG.
CHAPTER XIX. THE HISTORIOGRAPHER, MILLER.
CHAPTER XXI. ORLOFF AND THE PRINCESS.
CHAPTER XXII. ORLOFF’S INTERVIEW WITH THE PRINCESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. ORLOFF AT MOSCOW.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRINCESS WRITES TO THE EMPRESS.
CHAPTER XXV. FATHER PETER ANDRÉEF.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE VISITORS’ QUEST.
CHAPTER XXVII. A LATE VISITOR.
CHAPTER XXIX. CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION.
CHAPTER XXX. “WHAT IF THE CAPTIVE BE INNOCENT?”
CHAPTER XXXII. “A ROSE AND A MYRTLE.”
CHAPTER XXXIII. PAVEL PETROVITCH AND THE ENCHANTER.
CHAPTER XXXV. FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER.
INTRODUCTION.
Gregory Petrovitch Danilevski was born at Danilovki, an estate in the government of Kharkov, on April 14th, 1829. He died last winter at St. Petersburg, on December 6th. His childhood over—it was spent partly on the estate of his grandfather, near Dontsov, partly on the estate of Petrovski—he became a student first of the Muscovite Institute for the nobility, afterwards of the University of St. Petersburg, leaving the latter, in 1850, as graduate in jurisprudence. In 1848, during his studentship, he was presented with a silver medal at the meeting of the Philological Institute for his composition on Poushkin and Kriloff.
From 1850 to 1857 he served in the ministry of public instruction, at first under Noroff, afterwards under Prince Viazimski. During this period he visited Finland and the Crimea, and worked, by commission from the Archæological Society, on the archives of the monasteries of the governments of Kharkov, Koursk, and Poltava, and, at the suggestion of the historian Oustrialoff, wrote a description of the famous battlefield of the last-named place. In 1856, at the instance of the Imperial admiral, Constantine Nicolaievitch, he was sent to the south of Russia to write a description of the Sea of Azov, the Dnieper, and the Don. In the following year he resigned his official appointment. Thereafter, for twelve years, he lived at Petrovski, his own favourite estate in Kharkov, from time to time, however, paying visits to Poland, White Russia, Volhynie, and Podolia, and sailing down the Volga, Don,