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catherine: down slippery but comfortable slopes
Catherine the great and the cultural myth of the Potemkin village. How much was true and how much was fake? Only Potemkin knew for sure on that extravagant voyage down the Dnieper in 1787… …Joseph II, who peevishly described the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Catherine the Great, Friedrich Melchior Grimm, General Potemkin, Gyula Illyes, Joseph II Austria, Klavdy Lebedev, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Custine, Marquis de Custine La Russie 1839, Potemkin Villages, Robert K. Massie, Sergey Kirillov Russian artist, Stepan Razin Russian rebel, Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, Virginia Rounding
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