Zofia Potocka
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Zofia Potocka was a Greek slave courtesan and a Russian agent, later a Polish noblewoman. She was famous in contemporary Europe for her beauty and adventurous life. During the Russo-Turkish War she wa
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Grigory Potemkin
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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 Iași, which
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…was famous in contemporary Europe for her beauty and adventurous life. During the Russo-Turkish War she was the lover of the Russian commander Prince Grigory Potemkin and acted as an agent in Russian service. Compatriots of her time wrote: "She was beautiful as a dream, a child of southern countries. All those who…
1847 portrait, copy of an earlier work by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder
Potemkin uniforms, in service from 1786 until 1796. Russian infantry and jägers. (in German)
A probably later portrait of a 35-year-old Potemkin at the height of his love affair with Catherine
The Empress Catherine (45) at around the same time