Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (born 1739)

Grigory Potemkin

Russian military leader and statesman (1739–1791)

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 Iași, which ended a war with the Ottoman Empire that he had overseen.