List of Famous people with last name Potemkin

Grigory Potemkin

First Name Grigory

Died on October 5, 1791

Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite 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.

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Pyotr Potemkin

First Name Pyotr

Born on January 1, 1617

Died on January 1, 1700 (aged 83)

Pyotr Ivanovich Potyómkin (Potemkin) (1617–1700) was a Russian courtier, diplomat and namestnik of Borovsk during the reigns of Tsars Alexis I and Feodor III. He was a voivode during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) and took Lublin in 1655 and laid siege to Nyenschantz and Noteborg in 1656. Later he became a stolnik working as a Tsar's ambassador.

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