What is the surname in Potemkin's full name in Russian?
Potyomkin-Tavricheskiy
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Answer
Grigory Potemkin was a Russian statesman and military leader. His full name in Russian was Grigory Aleksandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheskiy. The surname Potyomkin comes from the name of the village of Potyomkino, in the Tula Governorate, where Potemkin was born. The word Tavrichesky is a reference to the Taurida Governorate, a region of the Russian Empire that is now part of Ukraine.
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