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Jun 4, 2024 · Grigory 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.
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2 days ago · Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Catherine’s favourite in the 1770s, may be considered the chief architect of her imperial policy.
3 days ago · In 1787–1788 Grigory Potemkin founded one of the first medical educational institutions in Ukraine, the medical and surgical school, which was graduated by Yefrem Mukhin (1766–1850), who became an outstanding surgeon and was one of the teachers of Nikolay Pirogov (1810–1871).
20 hours ago · Motto – «She ascended the throne to become Great!». 1768. Catherine has ruled Russia for six years. A dangerous prospect of war with Turkey is looming. At the same time, Catherine is looking for a way to legally marry her longtime favorite Grigory Orlov and legitimize their common son Alexey, to make him heir to the throne in case Pavel Petrovich (the son of Catherine II and Peter III ...
3 days ago · Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin (died 1791) was the lover of the Empress Catherine II of Russia for two years, but continued to have enormous power in the government for a further fifteen; Platon Alexandrovich Zubov was the last favourite of the Empress Catherine II of Russia who later took substantial part in the murder of her son and heir
3 days ago · Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) | 1925. Sergei Eisenstein ’s silent classic is a fictionalised account of the 1905 revolutionary uprising in the Black Sea port of Odessa. The massacre on the steps (an episode invented by Eisenstein) is one of cinema’s most innovatory sequences, and probably runs second only to Psycho ’s shower ...
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4 days ago · This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
