Definition: Meaning of, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin in English to English dictionary.
Pronunciation:/ pəˈtɛmkɪn /
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1739-1791 a Russian officer and politician who was a favourite 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