#Grigory Potemkin

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Date sim with all of Cath's boyfriends WHEN

[tomorrowusa]

When Russians weren't looting washing machines, toilets, and used underwear from Ukraine in the early weeks of the invasion, they were looting museums.

As a result of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer of 2022, the Russian army was forced to withdraw from the area around Kherson. On November 11, the city was liberated by the Ukrainian army. One of the many consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the months of turbulence in the Kherson region has been the devastation of the cultural sector. For example, at the beginning of November 2022, entire collections were removed from the Kherson Art Museum, the Kherson Regional Museum and the Kherson Region National Archives. Tombstones of Russian Tsarist commanders and even the remains of Russian Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin, a confidant of Tsarina Catherine II (Empress Catherine the Great), were looted.

Yep, Putin's troops (I use troops loosely) even took the bones of Grigory Potemkin of "Potemkin village" fame.

The Kherson Regional Museum director, Olga Goncharova, laments the loss of the most valuable collection items. The Russians took ancient Greek amphorae, gold ornaments from steppe nomads, medieval weapons and Orthodox icons to the left bank of the Dnipro River, an area still occupied by Russia. Goncharova says that since the occupying forces withdrew, the museum has also lacked important lists of exhibits and documents proving their historical value. She can therefore only roughly estimate the number of looted objects at around 23,000.

Putin is attempting to eradicate even the idea of Ukraine. That's part of the definition of genocide.

During the Russian invasion, more than 40 museums in the occupied territories were looted, says Ukraine's first deputy prosecutor general, Oleksiy Khomenko. The loss has not yet been fully quantified. "It could take years," he says. By the end of the year, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy intends to create a register in which all available information on collections located in the occupied territories will be entered. This should later help to find art and valuables. However, this will probably only be possible after the end of the war.

For anybody who"s interested, here's the DW article about Russia looting Ukrainian museums in Ukrainian. 🇺🇦

Де шукати зниклі під час російської окупації колекції музеїв

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TIL the Russian army stole Potemkin's bones when they occupied Kherson. In October 2022, a few weeks before they withdrew, the Russians took the bones from St Catherine's Cathedral and moved them to Russia.

Literal medieval warlord behaviour.

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watching catherine the great (2019) and so far it has taught me that being her boyfriend seems to have been a very hazardous profession. imagine you're playing billiards with two guys and then they beat you up, throw you out a window, and you lose an eye because the empress likes you better than them and you're NOT EVENING DATING YET

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Battleship Potemkin (Battleship Potyomkin) (1925)

Battleship Potemkin (Battleship Potyomkin) - Full Film #Cinema

Battleship Potemkin (1925) Synopsis – In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel’s officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. Director – Sergei Eisenstein Starring – Nina Agadzhanova, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigori Aleksandrov Genre – Drama | Historical |…

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Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

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Someone said they ship Grigor and Catherine. I actually wouldn’t mind it. Makes sense to me since both loved Peter and Grigor is supposedly based on  the historical figure Grigory Potemkin who was Catherine’s favorite.

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Three interesting Russian history facts!!?

Russian history is so interesting that it's hard to limit it to just 3.

The Soviets tried to abolish money...to disastrous results. During the Russian Civil War, the newly created USSR was breaking the bank trying to fund the Red Army, to the point of the early Ruble suffering from 11,000% inflation by 1922. But the Soviets weren't all that panicked by the implosion of the currency, because some were convinced that the new Communist society was going to be classless, stateless, and moneyless. There were ideas during the Civil War to replace money with a work-in-kind barter system, where your labor was the means by which goods and services were traded. Work at the factory, and the factory worker receives food, housing, and services instead of receiving a wage. And of course this received huge backlash by critics in the soviet government for sounding an awful lot like serfdom, and the Red Army eventually resorted to taking food and supplies at gunpoint due to the Ruble being worthless as a means to purchase such things. This never truly got off the ground though, and a moneyless society was backtracked on very quickly and a state bank was established for the USSR in 1922 after the first bank was shuttered in 1920.

The first spacewalk, while a huge accomplishment in the Space Race, was done in an an almost Macgyver-like way that was incredibly reckless and nearly ended in disaster. The Soviet Space Program was tasked with conducing the spacewalk by the Politburo in 1965, but the problem was that none of their spacecraft had an airlock that could open and close in space without risk to the spacecraft. So scientists were rushed to create an inflatable airlock strapped to the Voskhod 2 door to allow for a balloon tunnel that would act as an airlock. This worked in getting Alexei Leonov out of the spacecraft to do the first spacewalk, but he had immense trouble getting back in as his suit inflated in the vacuum of space, making it impossible for him to get back inside. After a few minutes of struggling to get back in the spacecraft, Soviet television cut off all broadcasting in fear of airing a cosmonaut dying on TV, but Leonov found a way to get through by letting the air out of his suit in order to become small enough to get through. He lost so much air that he risked suffocating, but he managed to get back in the spacecraft and accomplish the mission. 3. Catherine the Great did not officially remarry after ousting her husband, Peter III from power, but she probably had a second husband in Field Marshall Grigory Potemkin. It's known that the two were intimate, but personal correspondence has them calling the other 'my wife' and 'my husband' respectively, and was actually quite the scandal back in 18th Century Russia! Potemkin was accosted with accusations of receiving special treatment by Catherine and using his intimate relationship with her to advance his military career, and his own personal jealousy towards the power that Catherine held over him as Tsarina caused them to have a romantic falling out.

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Birthdays 10.12

Beer Birthdays

Janet Fletcher (1956)

Luc De Raedemaeker (1971)

Neriah Davis; St. Pauli Girl 2001 (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Aleister Crowley; English occultist (1875)

Deborah Foreman; actor (1962)

Hugh Jackman; actor (1968)

Sean Patrick Flannery; actor (1965)

Ralph Vaughan Williams; English composer (1872)

Famous Birthdays

Jane Sherwood Ace; comedian (1900)

Susan Anton; actor (1950)

Matsuo Basho; Japanese poet (1644)

Kirk Cameron; actor (1970)

Alice Childress; writer (1920)

Art Clokely; animator (1921)

Emily Deschanel; actor (1976)

Paul Engle; writer (1908)

Dick Gregory; comedian (1932)

Samuel Elmer Imes; chemist, physicist (1883)

Jane Krakowski; actor (1968)

Martie Maguire; country singer (1969)

Samuel "Sam" Moore; pop singer (1935)

Jean Nidetch; Weight Watchers founder (1923)

Luciano Pavarotti; Italian singer (1935)

Grigory Potemkin; Russian general, politician (1791)

Jane Siberry; singer (1955)

Joe Simon; comic book artist (1913)

Todd Snider; country singer (1966)

Elmer Ambrose Sperry; inventor (1860)

Michalle Trachtenberg; actor (1985)

George Williams; YMCA founder (1821)

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I'm writing a story where a nobleman is in love with a servant. The noble is kinda naive and a bit of a Himbo and romantic. He wants to give his lover expensive gifts, because he knows his lover desires them, but his lover is concerned about reputation and possibly gaining the reputation of someone sleeping their way to the top (plus is aware of how fickle some nobles can be, so if his noble lover loses interest he loses all of the protection so he can't rely on their relationship)

What are expensive items that might be conspicuous enough to cause an issue between them? (I know in some eras certain items were illegal for lower classes to own, and that would work great for this, but I can't find good examples)

Plenty. There's positions within the household or at court which can elevate his lover, there's material gifts such as fine clothes, jewellery or horses or there's estates and noble titles. Many monarchs got into hot water for the lavish gifts bestowed on their lovers:

Edward II and Piers Gaveston (later High Despencer possibly)

James I & VI and George Villiers

Charles II & all his mistresses (but Barbara Villiers perhaps most)

Catherine II and Grigory Potemkin

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BONUS ROUND 2: The Royal Favourite Rumble

The main poll is all fun and games, but let us not forget that the charm of the Romanov dynasty is not just about the guys with the crown of Monomakh. In fact, some of them might outright pale in comparison to the colourful characters in their vicinity. And this bonus round is dedicated to exactly such men-behind-the-man (or a woman, or a child). Alas, none of these (with one exception) are official dynasty members, but we'd be remiss if we didn't also celebrate them, and their contributions to the most dramatic dynasty of Early Modern and Modern Europe.

And oh, before anyone asks - Rasputin was disqualified for being vastly more famous than any other person on this poll. No other reason. If you miss him so badly, there are several other shady clergymen one might turn to...

OUR CONTESTANTS

Patriarch Filaret (Fyodor Nikitich Romanov) - Also known as the ACTUAL first Romanov ruler.

Patriarch Nikon (Nikita Minin) - The orthodoxy's biggest drama queen.

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov - Boy went pretty far from (allegedly) a pirozhki seller. And by far we mean Siberia.

Ernst Johann Biron - You know he was an upstanding gentleman just from the fact he was the favourite person of Anna Ivanovna.

Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin - The reports of his artificial villages were greatly exaggarated. Which is surprising considering how hard exaggarating about this dude is.

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The Dome Hall of the Tauride Palace, the huge St. Petersburg residence of Prince Grigory Potemkin-Tavrichesky built in the end of the XVIII century. 

Even before the revolution, the palace housed the State Duma of the Russian Empire, and nowadays it is home to several organisations, including the Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS and the Council of Legislators of Russia.

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I totally thought that Petrov was gonna get revealed as Potemkin but I could see them doing an amalgam character or several lovers? But yeah same if they get renewed I would love to see Tony's take on Potemkin.

Lol yeah, I thought Petrov was gonna be revealed as Potemkin as well. If they got renewed (and I think the crew is fully prepared for it to not happen too) I feel like it would be hard to have any kind of post-Peter Catherine without a Potemkin type, especially as he is soooo Tony McNamara. A one-eyed military leader who has a lot of sex (including with his nieces...?) and receives the thirstiest letters from Catherine... ever?

He could definitely represented as an amalgamation. I mean, if Grigor lost an eye... Potemkin was a Grigory lol. If any man on this show loses an eye it's all over.

Speaking of, checked on the wikipedia for this show to double check Grigor's last name, and I find it kinda wild that they list Orlo AS Grigory Orlov? Like, is that an official show thing, or a fan thing? Because I know Catherine/Orlo shippers wanted Orlo to be Orlov for a while, but I don't recall anyone everyone clarifying that. And the similar-ish name aside, Orlo has zero in common with the super sexual, militaristic Orlov who really wasn't even a very good politician, lol. Arguably, there were more nods to the real Peter with Peter (not liking Catherine initially, the violin, delusions of grandeur) than Orlo to Orlov.

Not that it MATTERS, I just know people really wanted Orlo to be THEEEEEE Orlov for a while.

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Lyubov Orlova on the Volga River in Volga Volga (1938), co-written and directed by Grigory Aleksandrov. Greg was born in Yekatarinburg, Russia, and had 27 director credits from October - Ten Days That Shook the World (1927, another honorable mention), to a 1984 documentary on the film's star, Lyubov Orlova. This was their third film together, after Moscow Laughs and The Circus.

His entry among my best 1001 is Que Viva Mexico, a documentary on the failed visit to Hollywood and Mexico by director Sergei Eisenstein. Grigory had appeared in Eisenstein's influential silent classic Battleship Potemkin (1925).

In 2010 a colorized version of Volga Volga premiered.

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Catherine the Great

Artist: Fedor Stepanovich Rokotov (Russian, 1736-1808)

Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796)

Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers.

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son, Paul. In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon overthrown with Catherine being declared empress. Peter was then killed shortly afterwards and it is not known whether Catherine had a part in his death. She subsequently had a series of lovers whom she promoted to high office, the most famous and successful of whom was Grigori Potemkin.

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards and westwards, adding territories which included the Crimea, Belarus and Lithuania. Agreements with Prussia and Austria led to three partitions of Poland, in 1772, 1793, and 1795, extending Russia's borders well into central Europe.

Catherine began as a political and social reformer but gradually grew more conservative as she got older. In 1767 she convened the Legislative Commission to codify Russia's laws and in the process modernised Russian life. She presented the commission with her Nakaz, (or 'Instruction'), a strikingly liberal document that presented the empress’s vision of the ideal government. The commission produced no desired results and the outbreak of war against the Ottoman Empire in 1768 provided a good opportunity to disband it.

The Pugachev Rebellion of 1774-1775 gained huge support in Russia's western territories until it was extinguished by the Russian army. Catherine realised her heavy reliance on the nobility to control the country and instigated a series of reforms giving them greater control over their land and serfs. The 1785 ‘Charter to the Nobility’ established them as a separate estate in Russian society and assured their privileges. Catherine therefore ignored any concern she may previously have had for the plight of the serfs, whose status and rights declined further.

Catherine's main interests were in education and culture. She read widely and corresponded with many of the prominent thinkers of the era, including Voltaire and Diderot. She was a patron of the arts, literature and education and acquired an art collection which now forms the basis of the Hermitage Museum.

Catherine died in St Petersburg on 17 November 1796 and was succeeded by her son Paul.