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	Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Potemkin.html (267 words)

	Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin (Potemkin) (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин) (September 13, 1739 (NS: September 24)–October 5, 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favourite of Catherine II the Great.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grigori_Aleksandrovich_Potemkin (918 words)

	Potemkin village - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potemkin_village (726 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)

	EefyWiki - Grigori Potemkin
		Potemkin ruled as a dictator, but he was respectful of local customs and peoples (provided they weren't subversive to the Greater Russia). He founded the city of Sevastopol on the Black Sea and began the creation of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. He also went about improving the area for the benefit of all Russia.
		Potemkin, caught with his exagerations down, developed a plan to fool Catherine and the Turks. Here's a hint...
		She launched the [Russo Turkish War] later in the year. The Turks appeared less impressed. The war went badly for the Russians, and in the end they stalemated again. Grigori Potemkin died in 1791 while negotiating the final peace with the Turks.
	eefy.editme.com /GrigoriPotemkin (198 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)

	Odss & Ends, May 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/540/handouts/ussr/potemkin.html (2020 words)

	Thomas Oliphant: NYC a 'film set' for GOP fantasies \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		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.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/37404 (747 words)

	Wabash Valley Journal of Business-The Wabash Valley's Best Source for Local Business News
		It is the Potemkin Village, the wooden silhouettes of buildings meant to fool Catherine the Great of Russia into thinking her unrealistic development plans were progressing.
		Field Marshal Grigori Potemkin (who can be thought of as the first ecodevo director) was commanded to populate the steppes of the southern Ukraine.
		It was Potemkin who organized Catherine's fabulous Crimean tour of 1787, convincing her that the country was alive with agriculture and commerce and strong enough to enter a war.
	www.thjournal.com /potemkin.asp (1134 words)

	CC Blog: Podcast » Blog Archive » The next elections will include a potemkin podcast event (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Today the term potemkin village or just potemkin is used to describe a staged, deceptive or hollow event.
	podcast.foundnews.com /?p=250 (361 words)

	ET - 2003 Potemkin Village Award
		Dictionary: "In the 18th century, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin created elaborate fake village facades in the Ukraine and Crimea for Catherine the Great's tours, giving the illusion of prosperity.
		The award is presented to ComReg/ODTR for producing some of the most elaborate Potemkin villages in form of their Quarterly Reviews.
		ComReg, do surprise us, show us that you are not the old ODTR under a new name, but a new organisation with a vision and a will to work for the interests of all in this country.
	www.eircomtribunal.com /2003award2.html (865 words)

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		GRIGORI Potemkin, one of the passionate lovers of Catherine the Great, was a master of illusion.
		As soon as the entourage passed by, the props, the crew and the entire cast were told to leave hurriedly and set themselves up in another village the royal retinue was to pass by.
		And Grigori Potemkin earned the reputation as the master legerdemain of make-believe the world had ever known.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/01/17/OPED2005011726579.html (772 words)

	A Moment in Time: Gregori Potemkin - Part I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lead: In 1762, Grigori Potemkin, an ambitious young officer, helped the coup that overthrew unpopular Czar Peter III in favor of his wife Catherine.
		Content: Grigori was born in 1739, studied at the University of Moscow and entered the military as quartermaster of the horse guards.
		Catherine's lover, Grigori Orlov, was jealous of Potemkin, because the younger man made no attempt to hide his growing respect and affection for the Empress.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=2215 (396 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Battleship Potemkin [1925]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin.
		Few people who have seen Battleship Potemkin remember that it is in fl and white ("But I could see the blood on the steps") or silent ("The shouting crowd, the gunshots").
		Made in 1925 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1905 revolution, this film is, on the face of it, a standard propaganda film.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SGIS (1642 words)

	Potemkin - potemkin.org - Main.HomePage
		Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich, 1739–91, Russian field marshal and Catherine's grandson Constantine was to be emperor and Potemkin ruler of an
		The Potemkin pothole was later sealed by a roadcrew with a gigantic roller truck,.
		Potemkin became a favorite of the tsarina; he received many awards, and was given Potemkin found pleasure in ostentatious luxury and personal wealth.
	infoseeknow.com /ifsn/potemkin.htm (459 words)

	Potemkin - potemkin.org - Pid.RFIDVideoPlayer
		Potemkin Village - What Secrets DRM Encryption is Really Hiding DRM is hiding a secret, but it is doing so much as a Potemkin Village hides a secret.
		Po·tem·kin (pō-tĕm ' kĭn, pə-, pə-tyôm ' -), Grigori Aleksandrovich 1739–1791.
		Battleship Potemkin, Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo, Grigori Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Ivan Bobrov, Brodsky, Julia Eisenstein, Andrei Fajt,
	www.findoutwebsite.com /fows/potemkin.htm (402 words)

	Amazon.com: Battleship Potemkin: DVD: Aleksandr Antonov,Vladimir Barsky,Grigori Aleksandrov,Aleksanteri Ahola-Valo,Ivan ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		POTEMKIN is a film in which individual characters are much less important than the groups and crowds of which they are members, and it achieves its incredible power by showing the clash of the groups and crowds in a series of extraordinarily visualized and edited sequences.
		Amazingly, each of these sequences manage to top the previous one, and the film actually builds in power as it moves from the mutiny to the citizen's rally to the massacre on the Odessa steps--the latter of which is among the most famous sequences in all of film history.
		Aleksandr Antonov as Grigory Vakulinchuk, Bolshevik Sailor, Vladimir Barsky as Commander Golikov, Grigori Aleksandrov as Chief Officer Giliarovsky, Ivan Bobrov as Young Sailor, flogged while sleeping, Mikhail Gomorov as Militant Sailor, Aleksandr Levshin as Petty Officer, N.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305090033?v=glance (2181 words)

	Festival News 9 March 2005: ”Potemkin Villages” Not Named After the Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name Potemkin is often mentioned in connection with shams and façades.
		Matti Vuori, a Finnish member of the European Parliament, has called the expansion of the EU ”Potemkin expansion” – the applicant countries are polishing their façades, which hide all kinds of unpleasant surprises.
		According to legend, Grigori Potemkin had several sham villages built in Crimea and Ukraine in late 18th century.
	www.uta.fi /festnews/fn2005/wednesday/18145.shtml (174 words)

	qz9301A (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Potemkin was responsible for adding a lot of southern territory to Russia during those years, including the Crimea.
		As her convoy of 170 or so sleighs trudged south in the bitter cold, Potemkin went ahead of them to make things appear better than they actually were.
		"Every town on the route, warned and instructed by Potemkin, was on its best behavior, washed and dressed as never before, happy for a day....Along the [Dnieper] river Catherine saw the 'Potemkin villages' which [he] had primed and polished for her pleasure, and perhaps to impress the diplomats with the prosperity of Russia.
	www.jerrynewcombe.com /qz9301A.html (513 words)

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		I believe a "Potemkin Village" was an artificially created place which the Soviet government under Stalin used to take visitors to in order to demonstrate the glories of socialism.
		The name Potemkin derives from a czarist battleship the crew of which mutinied in 1905.
		They escorted the western journalists and academics to this village so they could return to the west and report the lie that communism was wonderful and that the stories were not true.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/820271/replies?c=6 (476 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: The Potemkin President
		Among her legacies, Russian Empress Catherine the Great brought the term "Potemkin Village" into the vernacular.
		It refers to the elaborate villages erected by Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to impress Catherine with her new Crimean conquests.
		Through his mastery of techniques that would have made Potemkin himself proud, Bush has been able to advance unpopular policies, derail popular programs of the opposition, deflect deserved blame and appropriate undue credit.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/000130.htm (1283 words)

	» Battleship Potemkin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battleship Potemkin was conceived as part of a cycle of myth-making films intended to tell the story of the Revolution.
		The Potemkin fired shots and the rest of the Russian fleet was brought in to subdue the ship, but no return shots were fired.
		The Potemkin left Odessa and the sailors eventually sought asylum in Romania.
	greylodge.org /gpc/?p=262 (1588 words)

	Potemkin podcast in the next elections : Today's Podcast By Scott Brenner.
		Potemkin podcast in the next elections : Today's Podcast By Scott Brenner.
		Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russian military officer...
		March 15, 2006 02:45 AM Potemkin podcast in the next elections
	todayspodcast.com /archives/2005/08/the_next_electi_1.html (372 words)

	The Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) (1925)
		For those mildly interested, the ship was named after Grigori Potemkin, a Russian field marshall of note during the Russo-Turkish wars of the late eighteenth century, and a lover of Catherine II - better known as Catherine The Great.
		The story begins on board the Potemkin as the crew become disenchanted with their conditions - most specifically the fact that the meat they are supposed to eat is riddled with maggots and the cook cannot even break the meat apart with an axe.
		The Potemkin also finds itself being hounded by a squadron of the Russian navy, but the crew of the Potemkin convince the squadron to join them in the revolt.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=249 (2371 words)

	Battleship Potemkin DVD prices at Smarter.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations.
		Aside from CITIZEN KANE, perhaps the most perfectly constructed film ever made, the film's vision of tyranny and rebellion remain as powerful today as it was in 1925.
		This film classic about the 1905 Russian Revolution dramatizes the mutiny of the sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and the subsequent massacre of the innocent civilians who sympathized with them.
	www.smarter.com /battleship_potemkin---pd--ch-4--pi-43941.html (437 words)

	Weblog Entry - 11/02/2005: "Collapse of the Potemkin Presidency"
		Over the last 5 years, George W. Bush, with the aid of Karl Rove and other Republican friends, has erected a Potemkin presidency featuring leadership, integrity, unity, moral values and a humble foreign policy that hides gross ineptitude, lying and secrecy, polarization, a culture of corruption and an arrogant and belligerent foreign policy.
		The country was blinded by the Potemkin haze - until recently, when the public's eyes opened wide to see the true nature of this presidency.
		The Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin had fake settlements erected to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
	www.learningfountain.com /blog/archives/00000639.htm (965 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich POTEMKIN, GRIGORI ALEKSANDROVICH [Potemkin, Grigori Aleksandrovich], 1739-91, Russian field marshal and favorite of Catherine II.
		His part in the coup (1762) that made Catherine czarina brought him to her notice.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articlesnew/10441.html (221 words)

	.: Pikslar :.
		Na podoben način je razmišljal princ Grigori Aleksandrovič Potemkin - Tavričeski (sicer guverner krimske regije), ki je za obiske svoje skrite ljubezni, ruske carice Katarine Velike, gradil kulise vasi, da bi prepričal carico o uspešnosti regije in pridobil njeno naklonjenost.
		Kaj si ob omembi Potemkina mislijo umetniki, lahko do 18.
		novembra vidite v razstavnih prostorih po Ljubljani (Hotel Potemkin - Bohoričeva 5, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Galerija Alkatraz, Klub Daktari, Klub K4, Kiberpipa, Kavarna Metropol, Infoshop nad Menzo, JSKD, Plesni teater Ljubljana, Tovarna Rog, FDV in drugi zasebni in javni prostori v mestu), kaj si o njem mislita politika in širša družba, pa že veste.
	www.pikslar.com (1496 words)

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