Words: Potemkin Potyokin Grigori Potemkin Grigori Potyokin Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
Part of speech: n
Definition: 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)