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grigori aleksandrovich potemkin

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  • noun 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)

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  1. Pol.
  2. military officer
  3. officer
  4. political leader
  5. politician
  6. politico

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