The Princess Tarakanova: A Dark Chapter of Russian History

CONTENTS.

Introduction		ix-xxviii
Part I. DIARY OF LIEUTENANT KONSOV.
CHAP.		PAGE
I.	Tempest-tossed	1
II.	My Imprisonment	6
III.	Important News	13
IV.	I see the Princess	21
V.	My Interview with the Princess	27
VI.	The Princess asks Me to assist Her	33
VII.	I convey a Letter	41
VIII.	I deliver a Letter	50
IX.	We will befriend Her	60
X.	Is the Count a Traitor?	66
XI.	The Departure from Rome	82
XII.	The Princess seeks My Advice	89
XIII.	The “Marriage”	96
XIV.	Treachery	104
XV.	Remorse	109
XVI.	The Bottle cast into the Sea	114
Part II. RAVELIN ALEXEEF.
XVII.	Ekaterina at Moscow	125
XVIII.	The Princess at St. Petersburg	129
XIX.	The Historiographer Miller	137
XX.	Miller’s Reply	144
XXI.	Orloff and the Princess	152
XXII.	Orloff’s Interview with the Princess	159
XXIII.	Orloff at Moscow	168
XXIV.	The Princess writes to the Empress	177
XXV.	Father Peter AndrÉef	183
XXVI.	The Visitors’ Quest	188
XXVII.	A late Visitor	196
XVIII.	Baptism	202
XXIX.	Confession and Absolution	208
XXX.	“What if the Captive be Innocent?”	213
XXXI.	Release	218
XXXII.	“A Rose and a Myrtle”	227
XXIII.	Pavel Petrovitch and the Enchanter	237
XXXIV.	A Myrtle Leaf	243
XXXV.	Fifteen Years After	Clyx.com