deaths
October 16, 1791
Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (born 1739)
Grigory Potemkin
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 ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.