Potemkin

Potemkin Catherine II and Potemkin on the Millennium Monument in Novgorod Grigory Potemkin was involved in the coup d'état of 1762.

An office continued in Glasgow, but was effectively a “Potemkin village”.

He went to a Potemkin Village-like fake version of El Paso where the streets were quiet, clean and empty, without an illegal immigrant in sight.

They tend to swallow conspiracy theories and blatant lies instead as defense against 'evidence', see Potemkin Village.

Notwithstanding the release of seven of those held in the KGB prison, who participated in Lukashenko’s “Potemkin” round table a week or so ago, the auguries for protesters’ facing criminal charges are not at all good.

Clarke, who plays the dashing Grigory Potemkin, says this mini-series was one of the highlights of his career – in no small measure thanks to working with Mirren.

So far, the playable characters in the lineup include Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, May, Potemkin, Chip Zanuff, Axl Low and Faust as the newest entry.

I would bet that a lot of their military is literally a Potemkin force.

He may have been involved in arranging to bring Sergei Eisenstein 's groundbreaking film The Battleship Potemkin (1925) to US audiences for the first time.

In 1772, Catherine wrote to Potemkin.

In February 1784, Catherine the Great ordered Grigory Potemkin to build a fortress there and call it Sevastopol.

Magadan was temporarily transformed into a Potemkin village to mark an official visit by U.S. Vice-President Henry Wallace in May 1944.

Odessa's most iconic symbol, the Potemkin Steps (Primorsky Stairs) is a vast staircase that conjures an illusion so that those at the top only see a series of large steps, while at the bottom all the steps appear to merge into one pyramid-shaped mass.

On 7 June 1787 before another Russo-Turkish War here in Poltava Potemkin received his title "Prince of Taurida", while Suvorov received a snuffbox with monogram.

Potemkin died at the age of 52 in 1791.

Potemkin fell very ill in August 1783.

Potemkin had the task of briefing him and travelling with him to Saint Petersburg.

Potemkin was a heavily fictionalized film telling the story of a mutiny on a battleship which came about as a result of the sailors' mistreatment; the film was an obvious but skillful propaganda piece glorifying the proletariat.

Sergei Eisenstein 's Battleship Potemkin was released to wide acclaim in 1925; the film was heavily fictionalized and also propagandistic, giving the party line about the virtues of the proletariat.

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) was acclaimed critically worldwide.