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Grigory Potemkin

1739 - 1791

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Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (October 11 [O.S. September 30] 1739 – October 16 [O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Jassy, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen. Potemkin was born into a family of middle-income noble landowners. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Potemkin has received more than 2,406,362 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Grigory Potemkin is the 624th most popular politician (up from 712th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 87th in 2019) and the 32nd 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 624 out of 15,577. Before him are George I of Greece, Umar II, Gustaf V of Sweden, Sennacherib, Sargon II, and Sviatoslav I of Kiev. After him are Licinius, Hideki Tojo, Michael of Russia, James Monroe, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Sweyn Forkbeard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1739, Grigory Potemkin ranks 1. After him are Charles-Henri Sanson, Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Charles François Dumouriez, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, George Clinton, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Chalgrin, Charles-François Lebrun, and François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé. Among people deceased in 1791, Grigory Potemkin ranks 2. Before him is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, Étienne Maurice Falconet, Jacob Frank, Joseph Gaertner, Ignaz von Born, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, João de Loureiro, and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigory Potemkin ranks 82 out of 3,262. Before him are Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Ivan III of Russia (1440), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Anna Pavlova (1881), and Roman Jakobson (1896). After him are Michael of Russia (1596), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexis of Russia (1629), Mikhail Kalinin (1875), and Ivan Konev (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Grigory Potemkin ranks 32. Before him are Anna of Russia (1693), Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Frederick I of Prussia (1657), Yaroslav the Wise (978), and Ivan III of Russia (1440). After him are Michael of Russia (1596), Alexis of Russia (1629), Vasili IV of Russia (1552), Feodor III of Russia (1661), Alexander Kerensky (1881), and Nikolai Yezhov (1895).

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