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Potemkin

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Po·tem·kin  (p-tmkn, p-, p-tyôm-), Grigori Aleksandrovich 1739-1791.
Russian army officer and politician. The lover of Catherine II, he helped her seize power in 1762.
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Noun1.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 Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, 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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"He seems to have a mania for diamonds," said Morcerf, smiling, "and I verily believe that, like Potemkin, he keeps his pockets filled, for the sake of strewing them along the road, as Tom Thumb did his flint stones.
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