On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

As Littlepage noted: `` A complete picture of Prince Potemkin may be had in his 1788 operations.

By this time Vertov had been using his newsreel series as a pedestal to vilify dramatic fiction for several years ; he continued his criticisms even after the warm reception of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin in 1925.

Rep. Christopher H. Smith ( R-NJ ), criticized the State Department investigation, saying the investigators were shown " Potemkin Villages " where residents had been intimidated into lying about the family-planning program.

The film's potential to influence political thought through emotional response was noted by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who called Potemkin " a marvelous film without equal in the cinema ... anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film ".

Tsushima had broken the Russian strength in East Asia, and is said to have triggered various uprisings in the Russian Navy ( 1905 uprisings in Vladivostok and the Battleship Potemkin uprising ), contributing to the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Eisenstein was chosen to head the project due to the international success he had achieved with The Battleship Potemkin in 1925.

In 1780 he moved to Russia, where he was employed in the service of Prince Potemkin, who had an establishment designed to promote the introduction of various arts of civilization.

His success as an administrator provoked the jealousy of almighty Ukrainian born Prince Potemkin, upon whose insistence Chernyshev was sent away to govern Belarus, which had been snatched from Poland during the first partition several months prior to that.

Although Catherine had not yet taken Potemkin as a lover, it seems likely that she passively — if not actively — encouraged his flirtatious behaviour, including his regular practice of kissing her hand and declaring his love for her: without encouragement, Potemkin could have expected trouble from the Orlovs ( Catherine's lover Grigory and his four brothers ) who dominated court.

In September 1768, Potemkin became Kammerherr ( chamberlain ); two months later Catherine had his military commission revoked, fully attaching him to court.

In the interval, the Ottoman Empire had started the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 to 1774 and Potemkin was eager to prove himself, writing to Catherine:

By late January Potemkin had tired of the impasse and effected ( perhaps with encouragement from Catherine ) a " melodramatic retreat " into the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

Catherine relented and had Potemkin brought back in early February, when their relationship became intimate.

Many of their trysts seem to have centered around the banya in the basement of the Winter Palace ; Potemkin soon grew so jealous that Catherine had to detail her prior love life for him.

By July 1783, Potemkin had engineered the peaceful annexation of the Crimea and Kuban, capitalizing on the fact that Britain and France were fighting elsewhere.

Potemkin had other lovers at this time, including a ' Countess ' and a Naryshkina.

Certainly, Potemkin had arranged for Catherine to see the best he had to offer ( naturally organising numerous exotic excursions ) and at least two cities ' officials did conceal poverty by building false houses.

In the centre, Potemkin had his own Yekaterinoslav Army, while to the west lay the smaller Ukraine Army under the command of Field-Marshal Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky.

On water he had the Black Sea Fleet, and Potemkin was also responsible for coordinating military actions with Russia's Austrian allies.

Potemkin had conservative allies including Felix Potocki, whose schemes were so diverse that they have yet to be fully untangled.

Derzhavin's ode Waterfall lamented his death ; likewise many in the military establishment had looked upon Potemkin as a father figure and were especially saddened by his death.

In order to achieve a career for her son, and aided by Kizlovsky, the family moved to Moscow, where Potemkin enrolled at a gymnasium school attached to the University of Moscow.

On 1 January 1775, Zavadovsky became Adjutant-General to the Empress ( he became her official favorite in May ) and Potemkin was moved to command the St. Petersburg troop division.

) Potemkin moved south in mid-March, as the " Prince of Tauris ".

Potemkin also rewarded hundreds of thousands of settlers who moved into his territories.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Potemkin opened up a lavish court at Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, to " winter like a sultan, revel in his mistresses, build his towns, create his regiments — and negotiate peace with Turks ... he was emperor of all he surveyed ".

Potemkin returned to court in January 1774 expecting to walk into Catherine's arms.

His uncouth behavior shocked the court, but Potemkin showed himself capable of suitable formality when necessary.

In 1784 Lanskoy died and Potemkin was needed at court to console the grieving Catherine.

The Prince came across as polite and charming though his latest mistress, Princess Ekaterina Dolgorukaya, appeared sidelined and Potemkin found himself embroiled in court intrigue whilst trying to force Zubov out.

The term " Potemkin Court " implies that the court's reason to exist is being called into question ; it differs from a kangaroo court in which the court's standard of justice is being impugned.

When Grigory Potemkin, in 1771, superseded Vasil ' chikov, Orlov became of no account at court and went abroad for some years.

) Back on the Turkish front, Potemkin advanced towards the fortress of Bender on the Dniester river.

It is, however, based on the fact that there were widespread demonstrations in the area, sparked off by the arrival of the Potemkin in Odessa Harbour, and both The Times of London and the resident British Consul reported that troops fired on the crowds with accompanying loss of life ( the actual number of casualties is unrecorded ).

However, there were films that had more sophisticated aesthetic objectives, such as Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc ( 1928 ) and Vampyr ( 1932 ), surrealist films such as Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou ( 1929 ) and L ' Âge d ' Or ( 1930 ), or even films dealing with political and current-event relevance such as Sergei Eisenstein's famed and influential masterpiece Battleship Potemkin.

According to the myth, there were fake settlements purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigory Potemkin in order to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.

Rakovsky became noted locally especially after 1905, when he organized rallies in support of the Battleship Potemkin revolt ( the events worsened relations between Russia and the Romanian Kingdom ), carried out a relief operation for the Potemkin crew as their ship sought refuge in Constanţa, and attempted to determine them to set sail for Batumi and aid striking workers there.

News of this massacre spread rapidly – there was an uprising in Odessa, where the sailors in the battleship Potemkin took over the ship and fired on the headquarters of the tsarist troops.

On the sudden death of Potemkin he was despatched to Jassy to prevent the peace congress there from breaking up, and succeeded, in the face of all but insuperable difficulties, in concluding a treaty exceedingly advantageous to Russia ( 9 January 1792 ).

In his letter of 1769 to the Russian diplomat Count P. Panin, the Georgian king Erekle II documented that “ there was an ancient fortress which was conquered, through deceit, by one man from the Muslim Jevanshir tribe .” The same information about the ancient fortress is confirmed by the Russian Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov in his letter to Prince Grigory Potemkin.