potemkin(n = noun.person) grigori aleksandrovich potemkin, grigori potemkin, grigori potyokin, potyokin - 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);
is a kind of military officer, officer, pol, political leader, politician, politico