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2. • In 1762 proclaimed
herself empress of
Russia by staging a
coup against his
ineffective husband.
• Catherina ruled alone
and kept a series of
lovers.
• The Russians called
them “the men of the
moment”.
Catherina, wife of Czar
Peter III
3. The men of the moment
• Gregory Potemkin was
35 years old lieutenant,
10 years younger than
Catherine.
• Potemkin was course
and not at all
handsome, he had lost
his eye in an accident.
• He knew how to make
Catherine laugh.
• He quickly became the
love of her life.
4. Governor of White Russia
and Ukraine
• Catherine promoted
Potemkin higher and
higher in the hierarchy,
eventually making him
the governor of White
Russia, including
Ukraine.
5. Catherine’s dream
• Catherine’s dream was
to start a war with
Turkey, recapture
Constantinople and
drive the Turks out of
Europe.
6. Hapsburg emperor, Joseph
II
Catherine offered to
share crusade with
Joseph II, but Joseph
never quite brought
himself to sign the
treaty that would unit
them in war.
7. Catherina asks Potemkin
• She asked Potemkin to
do there what he had
already managed to do
in the Ukraine.
• He should have rid the
area bandits, build
roads, modernize the
ports, bring prosperity
to the poor.
• Once he had cleaned it
up, the Crimea would
make the perfect
launching post for the
war against Turkey.
8. Ekarinoslav to the glory of
Catherine
• Potemkin would
establish a capital on
the Dnieper River,
Ekaterinoslav, that
would rival St.
Petersburg.
9. Potemkin loved challenges
• Getting to work on a
100 different projects,
he grew intoxicated
with visions of the
miracles he would
perform there.
15. Potemkin talked about his
illusions to Catherine
• On a visit to the
empress in !785,
Potemkin talked of
these things as if they
already existed, so
vivid were his
descriptions.
• The empress was
delighted, but her
ministers were
skeptical.
• Potemkin loved to talk.
• She ignored minister’s
16. A tour to the Crimea
• Catherina asked
JosephII to join her, he
would be so impressed
with the modernization
of Crimea that he
would immediately sign
on fo the war against
Turkey.
• In May of 1787 year,
Catherine prepared for
a journey from Kiev, in
the Ukraine, to
Sebastopol in the
Crimea.
