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Grigory Potemkin

1739 - 1791

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Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (11 October [O.S. 30 September] 1739 – 16 October [O.S. 5 October] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen. Potemkin was born into a family of middle-income landowners of Russian nobility. He first attracted Catherine's favor for helping in her 1762 coup, then distinguished himself as a military commander in the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Potemkin is the 1,262nd most popular politician (down from 991st in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Russia (down from 112th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Russian Politician.

Grigory Potemkin is most famous for his fake villages that he created for Catherine the Great.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Grigory Potemkin ranks 1,262 out of 19,576. Before him are Totila, Philip III of Macedon, John III of Portugal, Margaret of Parma, Peter III of Aragon, and Sarah Palin. After him are Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, William Henry Harrison, Pierre Laval, Alexander of Greece, Bảo Đại, and Lajos Kossuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Grigory Potemkin ranks 1. After him are Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Charles-Henri Sanson, Charles François Dumouriez, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Baptist Wanhal, George Clinton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles-François Lebrun, Jean Chalgrin, and François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé. Among people deceased in 1791, Grigory Potemkin ranks 3. Before him are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau. After him are John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Jacob Frank, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Ignaz von Born, Joseph Gaertner, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Johan Andreas Murray, and João de Loureiro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Potemkin ranks 115 out of 3,761. Before him are Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), and Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961). After him are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Olga of Kiev (890), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), and Mikhail Sholokhov (1905).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Grigory Potemkin ranks 41. Before him are Ivan III of Russia (1440), Michael of Russia (1596), Lev Kamenev (1883), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Nikolai Yezhov (1895), and Tokhtamysh (1342). After him are Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Feodor III of Russia (1661), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Sergey Kirov (1886), and Vasili IV of Russia (1552).

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