Potemkin's horse then ( appeared to ) refuse to leave her side for several minutes before Potemkin and horse returned to the ranks.

Potemkin returned to war in 1773 as Lieutenant-General to fight in Silistria.

In any case Potemkin returned to St. Petersburg as a war hero.

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

Potemkin returned to St. Petersburg in November 1783 and was promoted to Field Marshal when the Crimea was formally annexed the following February.

His rule in the south is associated with the " Potemkin village ", a largely fictional method of ruse involving the construction of painted façades to mimic real villages.

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

The notion of the Potemkin village ( coined in German by critical biographer Georg von Helbig as ) arose from Catherine's visit to the south.

Potemkin remained in the south, gradually sinking into depression.

Potemkin refused to write regularly with news of the war in the south, compounding Catherine's anxiety.

In the end, Potemkin was given the requisite authority to negotiate with the Turks ( and, afterwards, to pursue his Polish ambitions ), and dispatched by Catherine back to the south.

Potemkin fell ill in the fever-ridden city of Jassy, though he kept busy, overseeing peace talks, planning his assault on Poland and preparing the army for renewed war in the south.

He was especially interested in news of Dobrogeanu-Gherea having become involved in the 1905 Russian battleship Potemkin scandal, after the aging socialist decided to offer his help to the refugee sailors as they arrived in Constanţa.

Potemkin also arranged for Catherine to walk in on Rimsky-Korasakov in a compromising position with another woman.

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.

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.

The same year he played the role as Grigori Potemkin in TV film Catherine The Great, with Mark and Stephen too.

He then married another Catherine, a relative of Prince Potemkin.

From the 18th century onwards, the title was occasionally granted by the Tsar, for the first time by Peter the Great to his associate Alexander Menshikov, and then by Catherine the Great to her lover Grigory Potemkin.

Prince Grigory Potemkin, who founded Stavropol as one of ten fortresses built between Azov and Mozdok at the request of Catherine the Great, played a leading role in the creation of the city.

Allegedly, as Catherine reviewed her troops in front of the Winter Palace before their march to the Peterhof, she lacked a sword-knot ( or possibly hat plumage ), which Potemkin quickly supplied.

After the coup Catherine singled out Potemkin for reward and ensured he was promoted to second lieutenant.

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.

Eighteen months later, Potemkin reappeared, probably summoned by Catherine.

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:

Potemkin saw action virtually every day, particularly excelling at the Battle of Prashkovsky, after which his commander Aleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsyn recommended him to Catherine.

It appears that Catherine missed him, and that Potemkin took a December letter from her as a summons.

A probably later portrait of a 35-year old Potemkin at the height of his love affair with 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.

Whether Catherine and Potemkin married is " almost certain ", writes Simon Sebag Montefiore ; biographer of Catherine, Virginia Rounding, is more doubtful.

Though the love affair appeared to end, Catherine and Potemkin remained in a particularly close friendship, which continued to dominate their lives.

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

After Alexander Yermolov was installed as the new favorite in 1785, Catherine, Yermolov and Potemkin cruised the upper Volga.

The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein attempted to edit the film in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their cruel overlords.

General Alexander Suvorov won an important victory at Kinburn in early October ; with winter now approaching, Potemkin was confident the port would be safe until the spring.

Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin ( 1925 ) was a revolutionary propaganda film which he used to test his theories of using " montage " ( editing ) in a manner which would produce the greatest emotional response in the audience.

Also, the close relationship between Potemkin and the Empress would make it difficult for him to deceive her.

Hannah briefly adopted the pseudonym Glen Lambert in the run-up to and immediate aftermath of the release of Potemkin City Limits, causing confusion among some fans, reviewers, and commentators ; the band concluded the prank by announcing on 14 August 2006 that Glen Lambert had been dismissed and would be replaced by " former " member Chris Hannah.