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Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin



Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich (1729–91), Russian soldier and favorite of Catherine the Great. For the last 20 years of his life, he was the most powerful man in Russia. He enlarged the Russian army and navy, and annexed (1783) and administered the Crimea.



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