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Bookmark or Share- The Potemkin villages myth EXPOSED - Russia BeyondIt turns out the myth about “Potemkin villages” was actually beneficial to Grigoriy Potemkin’s main project – the annexation of the Crimea for the Russian Empire.
- Grigory Potemkin - WikipediaPrincely arms of Grigory Potemkin. Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski [c] (11 October [O.S. 30 September] 1739 [nb 1] – 16 October [O.S. 5 October] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great.
- Grigory Potemkin | Biography, Villages, & Facts | BritannicaGrigory Potemkin, Russian army officer and statesman, for two years Empress Catherine the Great’s lover and for 17 years the most powerful man in the empire. An able administrator, licentious, extravagant, loyal, generous, and magnanimous, he was the subject of many anecdotes.
- The Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin - HISTORYThe Potemkin and its new sister ship steamed back to Odessa in triumph, but their victory was short-lived.
- Potemkin village - WikipediaIn politics and economics, a Potemkin village [a] (/pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪn/) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it actually is.
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