Potemkin G. A. (1739-1791), statesman

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POTEMKIN (from 1775 Potemkin-Tavrichesky) Grigory Alexandrovich (1739-1791), Count (1774) and His Highness, Prince (1775), statesman and military officer, favourite of Empress Catherine II, her secret spouse (from 1774) and virtual co-ruler, Field Marshal-General (1784). The conquest of the Eastern Black sea coast, Tauride, and Novorossia (South Ukraine) are attributed to him, as well as development and settlement of these territories. Being a man of an unspoken wealth, Potemkin built himself the Tauride Palace with a garden in St. Petersburg (now Tauride Garden), where the festivities, which took place in honour of the victory over Turkey in 1790, shook the imaginations of his contemporaries. Streets, encircling the palace and park complex are named after Potemkin, and designated as Potemkinskaya and Tavricheskaya. Potemkin"s figure is part of the composition of the monument to Catherine II in St. Petersburg.

References: Лопатин В. С. Потемкин и Суворов. М., 1992; Брикнер А. Г. Потемкин. М., 1996; Димов В. А. Потемкин в жизни: Свод свидетельств о жизни и деяниях основателя Новороссии. М., 2002; Г. А. Потемкин. Последние годы: Воспоминания. Дневники. Письма / Сост. и подгот. текста З. Е. Журавлевой. СПб., 2003.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Catherine II, Empress
Potemkin Grigory Alexandrovich, Gracious Prince of Tauride
Брикнер А. Г. Потемкин. М., 1996
Димов В. А. Потемкин в жизни: Свод свидетельств о жизни и деяниях основателя Новороссии. М., 2002
Лопатин В.С. Потемкин и Суворов. М., 1992 Tauride Palace
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