Grigory Potemkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
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Catherine the Great's lover, general, and southern empire-builder — the man who annexed Crimea, founded cities on the Black Sea, and left his name on the art of fakery itself.
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Potemkin was born in 1739 to middling Russian nobility and caught Catherine's eye by helping her seize the throne in 1762. He proved himself commanding troops in the first Russo-Turkish War, became her lover and possibly her consort, and when the passion faded stayed on as her closest adviser and the empire's most powerful governor. Catherine gave him grand titles and sent him south to tame the wild steppes, where he built Sevastopol, Kherson, and a Black Sea fleet from scratch, dealt harshly with the Cossacks, and peacefully folded Crimea into Russia in 1783. He led the second Turkish war, be…
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