ISBN: 9781156984468

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Grigory Potyomkin, Tito Livio Burattini, Louis of Württemberg, John Maurice Hauke, Alexander Guagnini, Andrew Báthory, Alois Friedrich Von Brühl, Augustyn Mirys. Excerpt: Prince (Reichsfürst) Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski (Russian: , pronounced Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Grigory Potyomkin, Tito Livio Burattini, Louis of Württemberg, John Maurice Hauke, Alexander Guagnini, Andrew Báthory, Alois Friedrich Von Brühl, Augustyn Mirys. Excerpt: Prince (Reichsfürst) Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski (Russian: , pronounced Patyómkin) (September 24 1739) October 16 1791) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favourite of Catherine II the Great. He is primarily remembered for his efforts to colonize the sparsely populated wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, which passed to Russia under the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774). Among the towns founded by Potyomkin are Kherson, Nikolaev (Mykolayiv), Sevastopol, and Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk). He is also widely associated with the "Potemkin village", a method of ruse that may or may not be grounded in historical events. Son of Alexander Potyomkin and Daria Skuratowa. A descendant of the Muscovite diplomat Pyotr Potyomkin, Grigory was born in the village of Chizhovo near Smolensk into the family of a minor army officer. After studying at the University of Moscow, he enlisted in the Chevalier Guard. He participated in the palace coup in 1762 that ousted Peter III and enthroned Catherine II. He was promoted to second lieutenant of the Guards. Catherine needed reliable assistants and appreciated Potyomkin's energy and organizational abilities. The biographical anecdotes relating to him during the next few years, such as his participation in the assassination of the deposed emperor, are obscure and mostly apocryphal. In 1774, their relationship took on a more intimate character. Potyomkin became a favorite of the tsarina; he received many awards, and was given the highest posts. For the next 17 years, he was the most powerful man in Russia. Books, , Polish-Indigenes~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<