Grigori Potemkin

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Grigori Potemkin - a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)

Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Potemkin, Potyokin

military officer, officer - any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command; "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men"

pol, political leader, politico, politician - a person active in party politics

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Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
Grigori Potyokin
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Speaking of Russia's faltering steps towards democracy, Olga Zimenkova, a professor of law from Moscow and the founder of a human rights education NGO, referred to the fake model villages erected by Grigori Potemkin to impress Catherine the Great.

Europe is not for the lazy-hearted: what does it mean to be European ... by Lean, Mary / For A Change

In the 18th century, Russian Prince Grigori Potemkin pulled off a colossal sham earning his name a place in history.

The Potemkin global villages: far from representing "global civil ... by Jasper, William F. / The New American

In the eighteenth century Grigori Potemkin, a minister of the Russian empress, Catherine the Great, lined a route on which she was traveling with impressive-looking but flimsy; hastily built structures in order to persuade her that large settlements had been built there.

Bad Statesman, Good Prophet by Mandelbaum, Michael / The National Interest

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