Note 63 — PRINCESS EKATERINA ROMANOVNA DASHKOV
Constance Garnett translation
An impartial reader of the Memoirs of both ladies will probably be surprised at Catherine’s forbearance with Princess Dashkov, whose tediously reiterated insistence on her own virtue and impeccability must have been a severe tax on the quick-witted Empress’s patience and good nature. Only on one occasion she permitted herself the gentle retort: ‘Dear princess, your reputation is better established than that of the whole calendar of saints,’ the irony of which was probably not apparent to Princess Dashkov.—(Translator’s Note.)