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In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
In 1787, a Russian statesman and former lover of Catherine the Great named Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin hastily erected a number of phony “mobile villages” along the banks of the Dnieper River. ... Accurate or not, the terms “Potemkin village” and “Potemkin facade” (or simply the word “Potemkin”) have stuck.
Who was Grigory Potemkin and what did he accomplish?
In many of the Balkan lands, he had well-informed agents. After he became field marshal, in 1784, he introduced many reforms into the army and built a fleet in the Black Sea, which served well in Catherine's second Russo-Turkish War (1787–91).
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