July 8th [O.S. June 27th], 1743 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
April 9th [O.S. March 28th], 1796 Moscow, Russian Empire
Resting place
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nikolskoye-Kolchevo, Podolsk district, Moscow Governorate
Spouse
Praskovya Andreevna Zakrevskaya
Alma mater
Imperial Moscow University
Occupation
Statesman, soldier, writer
Awards
Order of St. George, 4th degree, Order of St. George, 3rd degree, Golden Weapon for Bravery, Order of St Anne, Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, Order of St. George, 2nd degree
Military service
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Branch/service
Imperial Russian Army
Years of service
1756–1796
Rank
General-in-chief
Unit
Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment
Battles/wars
Izmail, Praga
Count Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin, sometimes spelled Potyomkin or Potiomkin (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Потёмкин; 1743–1796) was a Russian statesman, soldier, and writer.
He was a cousin of Prince Grigory Potemkin, a well-known military and political figure of Empress Catherine the Great’s Russia. He took part in the wars with the rebel adventurer Yemelyan Pugachev, the Ottoman Empire, and the Bar Confederation. He signed the Treaty of Georgievsk with King Heraclius II of Georgia in 1783.
Count Pavel Sergeevich Potemkin, sometimes spelled Potyomkin or Potiomkin (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Потёмкин; 1743–1796) was a Russian statesman, soldier...
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (October 11 [O.S. September 30] 1739 – October 16 [O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader...
were killed, and several times more wounded. With the onset of autumn, PavelPotemkin sent General Peter Tekelli and Ataman Ilovaisky on a new campaign to...
Pliny the Elder mention it. Russian troops first travelled it in 1769. PavelPotemkin sent 800 troops to improve the road so that by October 1783 he was able...
as Potemkin, – appointing a new leader of the Izmailian forces. Neither Nikolay Repnin (1789), nor Ivan Gudovich, replaced by Samoylov, nor Pavel Potyomkin...
siege by PavelPotemkin, Samoylov, and de Ribas, Suvorov, appointed by Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, stormed Izmail. On the retirement of Potemkin in 1791...
Lieutenant-General PavelPotemkin, commander of Russia's troops in Astrakhan and a delegate and cousin of General Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, who was...
AND RUSSIA", THE PHILOSOPHICAL AGE p.125 Prince of princes: the life of Potemkin, Sebag Montefiore, Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 978-0-312-27815-1 History of the...
himself a Russian rather than a Persian vassal (Treaty of Georgievsk). PavelPotemkin sent 800 men to begin work on the Georgian Military Highway through...
November 2012. In [Archbishop Hovsep] Argutyan's letter to General PavelPotemkin dated January 28, 1783, we read: 'The council of Melik Adam, Melik Hovsep...
these were the corps of Derfelden (first and second columns; 4,600 men), Potemkin (third and fourth columns; 5,800 men), Fersen (fifth, sixth, and seventh...
the sister of Grigory Potemkin, was married to Vasily Andreyevich von Engelhardt. Their six daughters, being nieces of Potemkin, were imperial favorites...
on her noble favourites, most notably Count Grigory Orlov and Grigory Potemkin. Assisted by highly successful generals such as Alexander Suvorov and Pyotr...
Paul I (Russian: Па́вел I Петро́вич, romanized: Pavel I Petrovich; 1 October [O.S. 20 September] 1754 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1801) was Emperor of...
Cossacks on the Serbian settlers. Antin Holovaty suggested to Grigori Potemkin to reorganize the Zaporozhian Host by the same style as the Don Cossack...
Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov (Russian: Граф Павел Александрович Строганов; 18 June 1774 – 22 June 1817) was a Russian military commander and statesman...
January 1787 to serve on the Caucasus front under Lieutenant General PavelPotemkin, and they fought the Chechens at the Terek River during the Russian...
participated in the failed attempt to recapture the mutinous battleship Potemkin in 1905. Decommissioned and disarmed in 1911, the ship became an immobile...
were suddenly interrupted, because on September 13 an order came from PavelPotemkin on the immediate withdrawal of Russian battalions from the South Caucasus...
Pavel Petrovich Ivlev (born 6 January 1970, Khimki, Moscow Region, Russia) is a Russian lawyer, and now a political refugee in the United States. Ivlev...
Groom's Mother Pyotr Chardynin as Groom's Father Pavel Biryukov as P. Biryukov Ivan Kamsky Ivan Potemkin Antonina Pozharskaya as A. Pozharskaya В Доме кино...
Potemkin on 13 May 1783, together with its principal base, the city of Sevastopol. Formerly commanded by admirals such as Dmitry Senyavin and Pavel Nakhimov...
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