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Original Articles

SAMUEL GREIG, CATHERINE THE GREAT'S SCOTTISH ADMIRAL

Pages 251-265 | Published online: 22 Mar 2013

References

  • Bantysh-Kamenskii , Dmitrii . 1836 . Slovar' dostopamiatnykh liudei russkoi zemli 157 – 63 . I (Moscow
  • 1881 . Arkhiv kniazia Vorontsova 338 XIX (Moscow
  • 1938 . A Memoir of James Trevenen 158 This standard account of Greig's service in the Royal Navy conflicts in some details with that given by a contemporary British officer in the Russian navy: (Navy Records Society, 1959), p. The editor of The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, Vol. IV (London, p. 111 suggests that Greig was ‘a lieutenant of 4 February 1762’
  • 1921 . History of Inverkeithing and Rosyth 522 Aberdeen Translation in William Stephen
  • 1876 . Sbornik Imperatorskogo Russkogo Istoricbes kogo Obshchestva 28 X (Spb.
  • 1868 . Ib. 30 I
  • 1876 . AKV 198 IX
  • 157 Bantysh-Kamenskii, op. cit. p. Trevenen (op. cit.) also suggested that his early advance-ment was due to his skill in ‘lunar observations’
  • 1952 . Naval Wars in the Levant 1559–1853 53 – 54 . The main English-language sources for the battle are R. C. Anderson,) (Liverpool, and Chapman, op. cit. See also E. V. Tarle, Chesmenskii boi ipervaia russkaia ekspeditsiia v Arkhipelag (Moscow-Leningrad, 1945), pp., for Spiridov's interference which came near to jeopardizing the success of Greig's attack with the fireships
  • 1876 . SRIO 107 XIX
  • Trevenen . 159 op. cit.
  • Parkinson , John . 1971 . A Tour of Russia, Siberia and the Crimea 1792–1794 79 London
  • 1775 . Scots Magazine 279 XXXVII (May
  • Trevenen . 17 September 1775 . 17 September , 159 op. cit. p. There is some dispute whether Mrs Greig was with her husband at this time. I would have thought the birth date of her first son, 6/, gave the answer
  • 1777 . Scots Magaityie 562 XXXIX (October
  • Aleksandrenko , V. N. 1897 . Russkie diplomaticheskie agenty v Londone v XVIII veke 184 II (Warsaw
  • 1773 . Scots Magazine 661 XXXV (December
  • Zabarinskii , P. P. 1936 . Pervye ‘ognevye’ masbiny v Kronshtadtskom portu 47 – 50 . (Moscow-Leningrad, pp. 75–7, 124–30
  • SRIO 246 XXIII
  • AKV 339 XIX
  • 1800 . The Life of Catherine II, Empress of Russia 197 I (5 th ed., Dublin
  • 1864 . The Scot Abroad 221 – 222 . John Hill Burton, Vol. II (Edinburgh
  • Brown , J. B. 1818 . Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard 613 London
  • 1929 . Archivo del General Miranda 402 – 6 . II (Caracas
  • Campbell , R. H. 1961 . Carron Company 151 (Edinburgh and London
  • 1844 . Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury 306 – 7 . I (London
  • Ib. 327 – 8 .
  • 1968 . The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham 469 II (London
  • Trevenen . 160 op. cit.
  • AKV 502 – 6 . XIX
  • 1907 . More , Vol. IV New Series (1971) 216 – 52 . See Tira Sokolovskaia, ‘O masonstve v prezhnem russkom flote’, no. 8, pp.; A. G. Cross, ‘British Freemasons in Russia during the Reign of Catherine the Great’, Oxford Slavonic Papers, pp. 58–9
  • Trevenen . 122 – 7 . op. cit.
  • 1969 . Naval Wars in the Baltic 1522–1850 241 – 93 . London
  • 1788 . Scots Magazine 348 L (July
  • 1788 . Ib. 459 (September
  • Jane , Fred T. 1899 . The Imperial Russian Navy: Its Past, Present, and Future 630 – 4 . London
  • Trevenen . 138 – 9 . op. cit.
  • Jane . 1967 . 637 Cf. op. cit. p.; Parkinson, op. cit., p. 79; Tatiana Bakounine, Répertoire biographiquedes francs-maçons russes (Paris, p. 188
  • 1826 . Mémoirs ou souvenirs et anecdotes 350 – 1 . III (Paris
  • 152 – 9 . See the description in Andrew Swinton, Travels into Noraway, Denmark and Russia, in the Years 2009, 1789, 1790, and 1791 (London, 1792)
  • 1788 . Am Grabe Greghs 162 – 6 . St Petersburg Slovo na smert' V. D. Greikha (St Petersburg, 1788). Quotations are translated from A. N. Pypin, Russkoe masonstvo XVIII i pervaia chetvert' XIX v. (Petrograd, 1916)
  • 1877 . AKV 62 XII p.; Vol. XIII (1879), p. 156
  • 1883 . Ib. 89 – 90 . XXVIII
  • 1886 . Rodoslovnyi sbornik russkikh dvorianskikh familii 223 V. V. Rummel' and V. V. Golubtsov, Vol. I (St Petersburg, p., note that the Greig crest and motto are unknown. The, motto is, however, given in AKV, Vol. XIX, p. 354 and an examination of the original holograph letter would show the crest
  • Trevenen . 160 – 161 . op. cit.
  • 1873 . Admiral Aleksei Samuilovich Greig St Petersburg Samuel Greig was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 14 March 1782 and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences on 7/18 August 1783. His son Alexis is the subject of a biography by A. Aslanberov
  • 494 – 7 . Much biographical information, some of it erroneous, on the Greigs is found in Stephen, op. cit. pp., and Rummel, op. cit., pp. 222–3

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