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"Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while he was free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine, her favorites. But they never stopped loving each other. Their enduring and passionate relationship remains one of history's most remarkable love affairs.".
"Potemkin shone as an outstandingly gifted statesman, winning the Crimea, founding the Black Sea Fleet, reforming the Cossacks, planning new cities like Sebastopol and Odessa, and making Russia a Near Eastern power - achievements in war and peace that emulated his hero, Peter the Great." "He embodied the strengths and weaknesses of Russia itself - volatile, ebullient, handsome, sensual, and always astonishing. His bizarre magnificence enchanted and scandalized Europe, yet he disdained his own success.".
"After five years' new research in archives from Petersburg to Odessa, Sebag Montefiore shows how Potemkin and Catherine, with their younger loves, created their own "family." He blazingly brings to life Potemkin's loving partnership with Catherine and restores him to his place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. When he died, Catherine was heartbroken. She said there could never be another Potemkin."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Generals, History, Royal Favorites, Statesmen, Potemkin, grigorii aleksandrovich, kniaz, 1739-1791, Favorites, royal, Soviet union, history, 1689-1800, Generals, biography, Statesmen, biography, Catherine ii, empress of russia, 1729-1796, Soviet union, history, house of romanov, 1613-1917People
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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
2016, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
2011, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
January 4, 2005, Vintage
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1400077176 9781400077175
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Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin
2001, Thomas Dunne Books
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0312278152 9780312278151
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Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin
2001, Thomas Dunne Books
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Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin
2001, Thomas Dunne Books
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PRINCE OF PRINCES: THE LIFE OF POTEMKIN
2001, WEIDENFELD NICHOLSON HISTORY, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1842124382 9781842124383
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Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin
2000, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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