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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Aleksei Musin-Pushkin, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Alexander Bezborodko, Alexander Kurakin, Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, Alexander Shishkov, Alexander Voeykov, Alexander Vostokov, Antony Pogorelsky, Denis Fonvizin, Dmitry Bludov, Dmitry Gorchakov, Dmitry Khvostov, Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, Gavrila Derzhavin, Grigory Potemkin, Ippolit Bogdanovich, Ivan Dmitrevsky, Ivan Dmitriev, Ivan Khemnitser, Ivan Krylov, Ivan Lepyokhin, Ivan Martinov, Ivan Muravyov-Apostol, Ivan Shuvalov, Ivan Yelagin, Josef Dobrovsky, Mikhail Kheraskov, Mikhail Pogodin, Mikhail Shcherbatov, Mikhail Speransky, Mikhail Zagoskin, Nikolai Nikolev, Nikolay Gerasimovich Ustryalov, Nikolay Gnedich, Nikolay Karamzin, Nikolay Lvov, Nikolay Mordvinov, Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev, Osip Kozodavlev, Pavel Katenin, Pavel Svinyin, Platon Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Pyotr Veinberg, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Semyon Desnitsky, Sergey Uvarov, Vasili Bazhenov, Vasily Kapnist, Vasily Zhukovsky, Yakov Knyazhnin, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova. Excerpt: Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski (Russian:, r Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheskiy; October 11 1739 - October 16 1791, ) was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite 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. He first attracted Catherine's favor for helping in her 1762 coup, then distinguished himself as a military commander in the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). He became Catherine's lover, favorite and possibly her consort. After their passion cooled, he remained her lifelong friend and favored statesman. Catherine obtained for him the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and gave him the title of...
