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potemkin
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791), favorite of Catherine II of Russia, especially in reference to the sham villages supposedly erected under his orders for the empressâ tour of Crimea (1787) to create an impression of prosperity and progress. The silent film "Battleship Potemkin" dates from 1925, depicting (with elaboration) events of 1905 and the mutiny of a Russian battleship named for the Tsarist minister.
Wikipedia
Potemkin may refer to
- Potemkin (surname)
- The Russian battleship Potemkin, named for Grigory Potemkin
- The Battleship Potemkin uprising, a famous mutiny in 1905
- The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein dealing with the mutiny
- Battleship Potemkin (album), a 2005 album of electronic and orchestral music written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys to accompany Eisenstein's film
- Potemkine, a song by Jean Ferrat glorifying the uprising; namesake for an album
- The Battleship Potemkin uprising, a famous mutiny in 1905
- Potemkin village, a term for fake settlements, named after Grigory Potemkin
- Potemkin Stairs, a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine
- Potemkin, a character in Celebration, a 1969 musical by Tom Jones
- Potemkin (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games
- Potemkin City Limits, an album by the band Propagandhi
- Potemkin (architecture), a steel park by Casagrande & Rintala in Japan
- Potemkin, a fictional Soviet submarine in " To Kill the Potemkin".
- A class of warship in the Battletech universe
- A starship in the universe of Star Trek, called "USS Potemkin", which appears in the TOS episode The Ultimate Computer.
Potemkin (, Potyomkin; or Potyomkina/Potemkina Feminine; Потёмкина) is a Russian surname which derives from the word Потёмка Potyomka meaning "dark". Persons bearing the name Potemkin rose to prominence in Muscovy from the 16th century onwards. The name may refer to
- Alexander Potemkin (1675–1746), Russian nobleman, father of Grigory
- Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), statesman and lover of Catherine the Great
- Károly Potemkin (born 1977), Hungarian football player
- Pavel Potemkin (1743–1796), a Russian diplomat and military leader, cousin of Grigory Potemkin
- Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), a Russian diplomat and voivode
- Valeriya Reznik (born Valeriya Potemkina in 1985), Russian short-track speed-skater
Category:Russian-language surnames
Usage examples of "potemkin".
Gennadi Potemkin hunched up the collar of his charcoal-gray overcoat and adjusted the angle of his fedora as he hurried out of the lobby of the Hyatt Regency two blocks from the train station and approached the waiting Lincoln Continental.
A squat, very dangerous-looking man dressed in a sharply tailored tuxedo, a white scarf around his neck, looked out from the back seat as the driver opened the door for Potemkin, who climbed in without a word.
They swung back toward the Hyatt, again lapsing into silence, Potemkin sinking into his own morose thoughts.
And from Harman to Gennadi Potemkin, head of all KGB operations in the United States.
A few snowflakes began to fall as he stopped about fifty yards from the house, cocking his ear to listen and scanning the dark woods in the direction of the driveway for any sign that Potemkin and his triggermen had shown up.
Turning, he raced back up through the woods parallel to the driveway, making little or no noise as he ran, finally emerging from the woods at the parked cars, and just ducking out of sight behind the Mercedes as Potemkin, huffing and puffing, came into view, a big pistol in his right hand.
White House through Harman and from the CIA through the penetration agent Potemkin had controlled.
Attache Potemkin felt a surge of relief, struck by the thought that if the Turks themselves gave this interview such low priority, his chief could hardly rank his error as a sacking offense.
Count Potemkin spent some time with four officers of the Imperial New Guard last week.
But he said that Potemkin was the last man to see the men alive, and nobody asked him how he knew.
Prince Potemkin once invited a minor nobleman to a banquet at his palace, where the guest was seated at the bottom end.
The illustrious Prince Potemkin, the most famous of them all, was well known for serving up whole pigs at his sumptuous feasts: all the innards were removed through the mouth, the carcass stuffed with sausage, and the whole beast cooked in pastry made with wine.
Only a monopoly would have bathrooms that still employ those ridiculous Potemkin hand dryers in lieu of something that might possibly dry your hands .
At the time of the Russian revolution of 1905 I was just a boy of eight, but I clearly remember the battleship Potemkin, a red flag on her mast, sailing along the coast past Odessa.
However, the red flag did not wave from the mast of the Potemkin for long.