Potemkin
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Potemkin is a Russia
n surname
which derives from the word Потёмка Potyomka meaning "dark". It may refer to:
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which derives from the word Потёмка Potyomka meaning "dark". It may refer to:
People
- Prince Grigory Potyomkin, statesman and lover of Catherine the Great
- Pavel PotemkinPavel PotemkinCount Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin, also Potyomkin , was a Imperial Russian statesman, soldier and writer.He was a cousin of Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, a well-known military and political figure of Catherine II’s Russia. He took part in the wars with the rebel adventurer Pugachev, the Ottoman...
, a Russian diplomat and military leader, cousin of Grigory Potemkin - Pyotr PotemkinPyotr PotemkinPyotr Ivanovich Potyomkin was a Russian courtier, diplomat and namestnik of Borovsk during the reigns of Tsars Alexis I and Feodor III....
, a Russian diplomat and voivode
Other
- The Russian battleship PotemkinRussian battleship PotemkinThe Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. The ship was made famous by the Battleship Potemkin uprising, a rebellion of the crew against their oppressive officers in June 1905...
, named for Grigory Potemkin- The Battleship Potemkin uprising, a famous mutiny in 1905
- The Battleship PotemkinThe Battleship PotemkinThe Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm...
, a film by Sergei Eisenstein dealing with the mutiny - Battleship Potemkin (album)Battleship Potemkin (album)Battleship Potemkin is a 2005 album of electronic and orchestral music written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys. The music on the album is performed by Pet Shop Boys and the Dresdner Sinfoniker...
, 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 FerratJean FerratJean Ferrat was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon.-Biography:...
glorifying the uprising; namesake for an album
- The Battleship Potemkin
- The Battleship Potemkin uprising, a famous mutiny in 1905
- Potemkin villagePotemkin villagePotemkin villages or Potyomkin villages is an idiom based on a historical myth. According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787...
, a term for fake settlements, named after Grigory Potemkin - Potemkin StairsPotemkin StairsThe Potemkin Stairs , is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa....
, a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine - Potemkin, a character in CelebrationCelebration (musical)Celebration is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt.A musical fable set on New Year's Eve, it focuses on four characters: Orphan, an idealistic and cheerfully optimistic young man, in possession of the stained-glass eye of God, who reminds Edgar Allen Rich, a...
, a 1969 musical by Tom Jones - Potemkin (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games
- Potemkin City LimitsPotemkin City LimitsPotemkin City Limits is the fourth full length album by the Canadian band Propagandhi, released on October 18, 2005. It was released on the band's own G7 Welcoming Committee Records label in Canada, and Fat Wreck Chords elsewhere....
, 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 PotemkinTo Kill The PotemkinTo Kill the Potemkin is a novel by Mark Joseph originally published in 1986. As a paperback, it spent four weeks on The New York Times bestseller list in July and August 1987.-Summary:...
". - A class of Warship in the BattletechBattleTechBattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2000, and owned since 2003 by Topps. The series began with FASA's debut of the board game BattleTech by Jordan Weisman and L...
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