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)

[ Syn: potemkin , potemkin , potyokin , potyokin , grigori potemkin , grigori potemkin , grigori potyokin , grigori potyokin , grigori aleksandrovich potemkin , grigori aleksandrovich potemkin ]