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	Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Potemkin became a favorite of the tsarina; he received many awards, and was given the highest posts.
		In 1776, at Catherine's request, the Emperor Joseph II raised Potemkin to the rank of a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Potemkin achieved appreciable success in Russia's newly won southern provinces, in which he was an absolute ruler.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grigori_Aleksandrovich_Potemkin (932 words)

	Potemkin village - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Potemkin villages were, purportedly, fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
		Conventional wisdom has it that Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper river in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress's eyes.
		The term "Potemkin Village" is also often used by judges, especially judges who dissent from the majority's opinion on a particular matter, to describe an inaccurate or tortured interpretation and/or application of a particular legal doctrine to the specific facts at issue.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Potemkin_village (451 words)

	USS Potemkin : Ship's History
		Catherine's grandson Constantine was to be emperor and Potemkin the ruler of an independent kingdom comprised of Moldavia, Walachia, and Bessarabia.
		Potemkin played an important role in the annexation of the Crimea, for which he was made a prince.
		The Potemkin underwent a fourth refit in 2368.
	www.usspotemkin.com /summer03/history.php (1265 words)

	AllRefer.com - Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Catherine's grandson Constantine was to be emperor and Potemkin ruler of an independent kingdom comprising Moldavia, Walachia, and Bessarabia, but the scheme did not succeed.
		Potemkin played an important part in the annexation (1783) of the Crimea, for which he was created prince.
		The allegation that he had sham villages ("Potemkin villages") built along her route is, at best, an extreme exaggeration, for Potemkin was in fact an able administrator, and he did much to develop the Crimea.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Potemkin.html (355 words)

	Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Russian: Григорий Александрович Потемкин) (1739 – 1791) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman and favorite of Catherine II the Great.
		Potemkin found pleasure in ostentatious luxury and was glorified by infinite personal riches.
		The purpose of the trip was the intimidation of Russia's enemies, and it led to a war for which the country appeared poorly prepared (Catherine's second war against the Turks in 1787–1792).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/grigori_aleksandrovich_potemkin (450 words)

	Potemkin village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conventional wisdom has it that Potemkin villages were fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
		Purportedly, Potemkin, who led the Crimean military campaign, had the hollow facades constructed along the desolate banks of the Dneiper River in order to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus, enhancing his standing in the empress's eyes.
		Potemkin did mount efforts to develop the Crimea and probably directed peasants to spruce up the riverfront in advance of the empress' boat party.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/potemkin_village (297 words)

	USS Potemkin - Memory Alpha
		In 2268, the Potemkin was part of a small task force that participated in war games to field test the experimental M-5 computer, which had been designed by Doctor Richard Daystrom.
		The Potemkin was among the starships that would have been assembled for the abandoned assault code-named Operation: Retrieve, which would have rescued Captain James Kirk and Doctor Leonard McCoy from Qo'noS in 2293.
		The USS Potemkin rendevousing with the USS Enterprise-D. The second Starship Potemkin was an Excelsior-class starship that served in the 24th century.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/USS_Potemkin (810 words)

	Today's Podcast: Potemkin podcast in the next elections
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer...
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer and politician.
		Potemkin, who had recently conquered the area, wanted to impress Catherine II by demonstrating the value of the area he had captured by showing off a wonderful village.
	www.todayspodcast.com /archives/2005/08/the_next_electi_1.html (334 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / A convention village of GOP fantasies
		Artifice was as important to the ruler as it was to the ruled, illusions being central to the totalitarian mind-set.
		Potemkin's name is invoked today more in derision than description -- Hillary Clinton and just about every other Democratic kibitzer here for the Republican convention used it all weekend --but the truth is that it fits the modern convention like a glove.
		Grigori Potemkin's acolytes plopped Dick Cheney down on Ellis Island, with the Twin Towers-missing Manhattan skyline perfectly framed for TV in the background.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/08/31/a_convention_village_of_gop_fantasies (772 words)

	Read about Russian battleship Potemkin at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Russian battleship Potemkin and learn ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, a military figure of the
		Battleship Potemkin uprising, a rebellion of the crew against their oppressive officers in June of 1905 (during the
		Russian Civil War, Potemkin was raised from the bottom of the sea and dismantled because of irreparable damage.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Russian_battleship_Potemkin (216 words)

	Odss & Ends, May 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was born in Smolensk Province on September 13, 1739, to Aleksandr Potemkin, a provincial army officer and nobleman, considered poor, with only four hundred serfs.
		Darya and Potemkin were married and Grigori was born into a proper and legitimate household.
		Potemkin, now the most powerful man in Russia, was tolerant toward religious dissidents, protected national minorities, in troduced a more humane conception of discipline into the army, promoted colonization, founded Kherson and several other new towns, and created a Black Sea fleet.
	www.hist.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/540/handouts/ussr/potemkin.html (2020 words)

	AllRefer.com - Orlov, Grigori Grigoryevich, Count (Russian, Soviet, And CIS History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		One of the first lovers of Catherine II, he and his brother led the conspiracy that deposed Peter III and put her on the throne.
		Although the empress was deeply in love with him and owed her power to him more than to any other, he did not have a decisive voice in state affairs.
		He was later supplanted by other favorites, notably Potemkin.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Orlov-Gr.html (236 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mykolaiv (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The town was founded in 1789 by the Governor General of Novorossiya Knyaz Potemkin initially as a shipyard called simply a New Shipyard on the Ingul river.
		Knyaz Potemkin signed an order to construct a shipyard on April 27, 1789, which is considered to be a city birth date.
		Later Potemkin ordered the shipyard to be named Nikolaev to commemorate the date of fall of Ochakov to the Russian troops under his command on December 6, 1788, close to the day of Saint Nicholas (Nikolay) December 19, in the Russian Orthodox Church.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mykolaiv (2061 words)

	Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin Biography / Biography of Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin Biography Biography
		The Russian administrator and field marshal Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), a favorite of Catherine the Great, is best known for his work in the economic development of southern Russia.
		Grigori Potemkin the son of a minor nobleman, was born on Sept. 13, 1739, in Chizhovo, a village of western Russia.
		In so doing, he gained the favorable attention of the new empress, who was inclined to be very generous to her supporters.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/grigori-aleksandrovich-potemkin (249 words)

	Odss & Ends, May 1997
		The story of his Potemkin villages may possibly be a fabrication; if so, the legend is more powerful than the fact.
		During World War II the Nazis would play out a macabre variation with their model towns designed to make international relief organizations believe that Jews were happily resettled in bright, shiny new settlements, complete with self-government, nurseries for children and symphony orchestras for the enlightenment of Germany's loved and respected Jewish brethren.
		Potemkin, now the most powerful man in Russia, was tolerant toward religious dissidents, protected national minorities, introduced a more humane conception of discipline into the army, promoted colonization, founded Kherson and several other new towns, and created a Black Sea fleet.
	www.home.eznet.net /%7Edminor/O%26E9705.html (1983 words)

	UNMIK's Potemkin Villages, by Fr. Sava Janjic
		Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich, 1739—91, Russian field marshal and favorite of Empress Catherine II.
		Potemkin is perhaps best remembered for the legendary "Potemkin Villages" he is said to have created for her benefit as she embarked on a grand tour of all the newly Russianized lands he had conquered for her.
		The artificiality of the Potemkin Villages came to represent in the minds of many, Catherine’s superficial and halfhearted attempts to reform and liberalize her kingdom.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/sava1.html (2595 words)

	The Potemkin Economy
		In 1787, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, took a great tour of the newly conquered Crimea, organized by Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin.
		Potemkin's many detractors at Catherine's court labeled these villages "Potemkin Villages" and charged that they were actually inhabited by actors, who tore them down and rebuilt them ahead of the tour.
		Because centuries of historical culture taught them so, they almost all acted on the assumption that their new "capitalism" was just the latest sham, for the benefit of the world's opinion.
	www.newstrolls.com /news/dev/kilner/980917.htm (1161 words)

	Encyclopedia: Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Russian: Григорий Александрович Потемкин) (September 13, 1739 (NS: September 24) – October 5, 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favorite of Catherine II the Great.
		Among the towns founded by Potemkin are Kherson, Mykolayiv, Sevastopol, and Dnipropetrovs'k.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Grigori-Aleksandrovich-Potemkin (941 words)

	Potemkin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Potemkin, A character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games.
		A former slave-soldier who is so powerful he can exert four tons of pressure using only his fingers.
		This page was last modified 08:25, 23 May 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Potemkin (117 words)

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		Extrapolating from the sleek exterior and the ground-floor bar, this could be just yet another cool venture in a groovy part of town, but in the basement restaurant its true Russian colours are subtly revealed.
		In gilt-framed alcoves stand tall vases made of colourful papier-maché lacquerware (Kokhloma ware) which suggest that the inspiration for the restaurant is Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, "licentious, astute and unscrupulous" paramour of Catherine the Great, and not the battleship.
		The standard of cooking rose sharply in the main course where beef stroganoff served with a scattering of straw potatoes on top made a convincing bid for authenticity for a dish which has always seemed a bit of a joke.
	www.potemkin.co.uk /maschler.htm (252 words)

	Michael J. Polignano, Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1787 the Russian count Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin organized a tour for Catherine the Great of recently annexed territories in the Crimea.
		Potemkin's enemies, however, accused him of fooling the Empress by constructing fake villages, islands of prosperity in a blighted landscape.
		Thus the higher echelons of our society are becoming a Potemkin village increasingly populated by non-Whites who, regardless of their real merits, have been promoted a rung or two above those merits because of their race.
	www.michaeljpolignano.com /14OCT03.html (1130 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1787, when Catherine the Great visited the Ukraine and the Crimea, Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), a Russian army officer, statesman, and her lover, decided to put up elaborate cardboard houses apparently full of splendor in the villages Catherine was shown.
		A Potemkin village is, in other words, whitewash taken to the Nth degree.
		While Potemkin is the subject of many a legend, Potemkin village is his claim to fame.
	wordsmith.org /awad/archives/1201 (3025 words)

	Biography of Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin \| Theses on Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin
		The Russian administrator and field marshal Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), a favorite of Catherine the Great, is best known for his work in the economic development of southern Russia.Grigori Potemkin the son of a minor nobleman, was born on Sept. 13, 1739, in Chizhovo, a village of western Russia.
		Another study is Jerome Dreifuss, Catherine and Potemkin: An Imperial Romance (1937).
		The first biography in more than fifty years, Sebag Montefiore's Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin (2000) is an educational and enjoyable look at a fascinating man. There is also extensive material on Potemkin in lan Grey, Catherine the Great: Autocrat of All Russia (1962).
	www.paperadepts.com /biographies/Grigori_Aleksandrovich_Potemki-29755.html (326 words)

	Potemkin Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Encyclopedia: Potemkin village (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Novorossiya (Russian:, literally New Russia) is a historic area now mostly located in southern Ukraine, and partially in southern Russia.
		Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin ISBN 0875803245 (edited and translated from the Russian by Douglas Smith)
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Potemkin-village (752 words)

	CBS News \| Convention MIA: Power Bushies \| September 1, 2004 10:00:51
		The central insight that informs most all media analysis and partisan criticism of the Republican convention is that it's all a marketing job that disguises how conservative the party truly is by sending a cast of moderate actors into the primetime lights.
		It's time to send the whole Potemkin spiel the way of Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, the man who built the fake villages for Catherine the Great.
		Every American who has not been on monastic retreat can speak knowledgably about exactly where the star speakers are to the left of the party platform and the delegates' surveyed opinions on the great issues of the day.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/09/01/opinion/meyer/main639913.shtml (1276 words)

	Linkmeister: Thursday trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We hear the phrase "Potemkin village" thrown about a lot.
		Here's the derivation: "A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century."
		This is going too far: Intel has built a surfboard with a wireless laptop embedded.
	www.linkmeister.com /blog/archives/000946.html (94 words)

	VHMPrincess: Word of the day...
		A Potemkin village is so called after Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages built in order to impress Catherine the Great on her tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea in the 18th century.
		When will the West have the guts to call Russia what it really is: a semi-totalitarian state with Potemkin village-style democratic institutions and a fascist-capitalist economy?
		It's a lie, a huge Potemkin village designed to give North Korea the appearance of modernity.
	vhmprincess.blogspot.com /2004/06/word-of-day.html (152 words)

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