Potemkin - Definition
potemkin
n 1: a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of
Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when
she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham
villages to be built (1739-1791) [syn: Potemkin,
Potyokin, Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin,
Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin]