1.Müller-Dietz, H., J. Wylie and the Medico-Chirurgical Academy in St Petersburg, p. 15.
2.Meiklejohn, The Rev. William, Tulliallan: Four Lads o’ Pairts, p. 1.
3.Sheriff Court Records of Clackmannan.
4.Müller-Dietz. H., p. 1
5.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 15, note 7.
6.Ibid., p. 2.
7.1996 Scottish Medical Journal. Paper by A.A. Novik, V.I. Mazurov & P. d’A Semple. ‘The Life & Times of Sir James Wylie Bt., MD., 1768–1854’.
8.Doctor Clarke’s Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey.
9.Troyat, Henri. Catherine the Great, pp. 319–20.
10.Troyat, Henri, p. 311.
11.A lithotomy is a surgical procedure for removing stones from organs such as the bladder or kidney.
12.Müller-Dietz. H., p. 2.
13.Ibid.
14.Masson. F., Memoirs of Catherine II and the Court, pp. 145–8.
15.Palmer, A., Life of Alexander I, p. 30.
16.Almedingen, E.M., The Emperor Alexander I, p. 60.
17.Appleby, John H., Through the Looking-Glass: Scottish Doctors in Russia (1704–1854), pp. 60-61.
18.Troyat, H., Catherine the Great, pp. 322–3.
19.Appleby, J.H., p. 61.
20.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 15.
21.Tooke, Life of Catherine II, Vol.1.
22.Palmer, A., p. 45.
23.Joyneville, C., Life and Times of Alexander I, Vol. III, p. 364.
24.Palmer, A., p. 65.
25.Palmer, A., p. 102.
26.Palmer, A., p. 109.
27.Guthrie, Matthew, Supplementary Tour, p. 48.
28.Palmer. A., p. 138.
29.Almedingen, E.M., The Emperor Alexander, p. 101.
30.Müller-Dietz, H., p. 3.
31.Adam, A., FRCS. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, ed I. Levack and H. Dudley, 1992.
32.Thomson, Anthony Todd. Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
33.A verst = 3,500 yards, or about three quarters of a mile.
34.Palmer, A., p. 203.
35.Lieven, D., Russia against Napoleon, p. 157.
36.Ibid., p. 186.
37.Tolstoy, L., War and Peace, Part 2, p. 902.
38.Palmer, A., p. 248.
39.Palmer, A., p. 253.
40.Lieven, D., p. 286.
41.Palmer, A., p. 260.
42.Meiklejohn, the Rev. W., p. 6.
43.Müller-Dietz, H., p. 3.
44.Lieven, D., p. 416.
45.Fremont-Barnes, Gregory., The Napoleonic Wars, (4), p. 48.
46.Palmer, A., p. 273.
47.Lieven, D., p. 143.
48.Joyneville. C., Vol III. p. 26.
49.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 9.
50.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 16.
51.Palmer, A., pp. 296–7.
52.Ibid., p. 298.
53.Müller-Dietz, H., p. 7.
54.Novik, Mazurov, Semple, p. 119
55.Schuster, Norah H., Paper Records of British Medical Society, Vol. 61, February 1968, p. 185.
56.Palmer, A., p. 319.
57.Palmer, A., p. 324.
58.Joyneville, C., p. 196.
59.Palmer, A., p. 332.
60.£1 = approximately 473 roubles.
61.Novik, Mazurov, Semple, p. 118.
62.One rouble is divided into 100 copecks (kopeks).
63.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 7.
64.Lyall, Robert, Travels in Russia, the Crimea, the Caucusus, and Georgia, Vol. II. pp. 425–6.
65.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 5.
66.Ibid., p. 114.
67.Novik, Mazurov, Semple, p. 117.
68.Palmer, A., p. 344.
69.Almedingen, E.M., p. 175.
70.Almedingen, E.M., p. 181.
71.Joyneville, C., p. 275.
72.Pope-Hennessey, Una, Alexandra Memoir, pp. 44–5.
73.Palmer, A., p. 166
74.Joyneville, C., p. 318.
75.Lee, Doctor R., ‘The Last Days of Alexander I and the First Days of Nicholas I’ Item 206.
76.Palmer, A., p. 382.
77.Palmer, A., p. 77.
78.Joyneville, C., p. 347 (footnote).
79.Troubetzkoy, A.S., Imperial Legend, p. 126.
80.Russkaya Starina magazine, Vol. 73 (1892), p. 79.
81.Magazine editor suggests Severski.
82.Lee, R., p. 15.
83.This is the second time that Alexander’s fondness for Scottish reels, presumably taught to him by Wylie, is mentioned.
84.Ibid., p. 27.
85.The castle built at Alupka, in both English and Gothic style, now an art gallery and museum, and where Winston Churchill stayed during the Yalta Conference, was at that time only being planned.
86.Over four miles.
87.From Russkaya Starina, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 79.
88.Alexander I was born on 12 December 1777 (Julian calendar).
89.Appleby, J., The Caledonian Phalanx, Scots in Russia, p. 63.
90.Lee, R., p. 66.
91.Troubetzkoy, A.S., p. 191.
92.Troubetzkoy, A.S., p. 192.
93.Troubetzkoy, A.S., pp. 246–7.
94.Ibid.
95.Lee, R., p. 125.
96.One wonders if she made them stop to see it!
97.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 12.
98.Müller-Dietz, H., p. 6.
99.Ibid.
100.Ibid., p. 7.
101.Meiklejohn, Rev. W., p. 12.
102.Ibid.
103.Novik, Mazurov, Semple, p. 119.
104.de Grunwald, C., Tsar Nicholas II, p. 284.