Contents

List of Illustrations

Map

Introduction

PART ONE

Prologue: The Man from America

1 The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea

2 Performer of Miracles

3 The Reign of Fear

4 Doctor to the Tsar

5 The Palace of Intrigue

6 ‘Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown’

7 Doctor to the New Tsar

8 The Heavy Clouds of War

9 Austerlitz

10 The Fourth Coalition

11 Tilsit

12 Head of the Russian Military Medical Services

13 ‘Napoleon Thinks I Am No Better Than a Fool’

14 Borodino

15 The Agony of Failure

16 Victor of the North

17 The Battle of the Nations

18 Paris

19 Celebration, Love and Sorrow

20 England

21 ‘The First Medical Person in the Russian Empire’

22 The Prophetess

23 Rebuilding From the Ruins of the War

24 The Military Settlements

25 Wrestling with Devils

26 Dark Shadow Over the Sun

27 The Toll of Long Travel

28 The Great Flood

29 Taganrog

30 The Doctor’s Diaries

31 The Fateful Journey

32 ‘Come on, my dear friend, I hope you are not angry with me.’

33 The Death Certificate of Doubt

PART TWO

34 The Shadow of Confusion

35 The Legend

36 City of Secret Sedition

37 Invasion and Rebellion

38 The Winter Palace

39 The Last Days

Envoi

Notes

Bibliography

Index