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Potemkin   /pətˈɛmkɪn/   Listen
Potemkin

noun
1.
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).  Synonyms: Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Potyokin.



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"Potemkin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Potemkin is a Russian, but she has all the grace, softness, winning manner of the Polish ladies. Oval face, pale, with the finest, softest, most expressive chestnut dark eyes. She has a sort of politeness which pleases peculiarly, a mixture ...
— A Book of Sibyls - Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen • Anne Thackeray (Mrs. Richmond Ritchie)

... heard from Hunter that he is printing Rosamond, and that my friends at home will correct the proofs for me: GOD bless them! We spent a very pleasant day at dear Madame de Roquefeuille's, at Versailles; and, returning, we paid a latish visit to the Princess Potemkin. What a contrast the tone of conversation and the whole of the ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth



Words linked to "Potemkin" :   Grigori Potyokin, Potyokin, pol, politico, politician, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Grigori Potemkin, military officer, officer, political leader, Potemkin village



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