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Elizabeth Grigorievna Temkina (Russian: Елизавета Григорьевна Тёмкина, romanized: Elizaveta Grigoryevna Tyomkina; 24 July [O.S. 13 July] 1775 – 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1854) was the once-alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin.
Elizabeth Grigorievna Temkina ( Russian: Елизавета Григорьевна Тёмкина, romanized: Elizaveta Grigoryevna Tyomkina; 24 July [ O.S. 13 July] 1775 – 6 June [ O.S. 25 May] 1854) was the once-alleged daughter of Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin.
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Early life
A distant relative of the Muscovite diplomat Pyotr Potemkin (1617–1700), Grigory was born in the village of Chizhovo near Smolensk into a family of middle-income noble landowners.His father, Alexander Potemkin (1675–1746), was a decorated war veteran. His mother Daria Vasilievna Kondyreva (1704–1780) was "good-looking, capable and intelligent", though their marriage proved ultimately unhappy. Potemkin received his first name in honour of his father's cousin Grigory Matveevich Kizlovsky, a civ...
Courtier and general
Although Catherine had not yet taken Potemkin as a lover, it seems likely that she passively—if not actively—encouraged his flirtatious behaviour, including his regular practice of kissing her hand and declaring his love for her: without encouragement, Potemkin could have expected trouble from the Orlovs (Catherine's lover Grigory and his four brothers) who dominated court. Potemkin entered Catherine's circle of advisers, and in 1762 took his only foreign assignment, to Sweden, bearing news o...
Favorite of Catherine II
Potemkin returned to court in January 1774 expecting to walk into Catherine's arms. The political situation, however, had become complex. Yemelyan Pugachev had just arisen as a pretender to the throne, and commanded a rebel army thirty thousand strong. In addition, Catherine's son Paul turned eighteen and began to gain his own support. By late January Potemkin had tired of the impasse and effected (perhaps with encouragement from Catherine) a "melodramatic retreat" into the Alexander Nevsky M...
Potemkin "exuded both menace and welcome"; he was arrogant, demanding of his courtiers, and very changeable in his moods, but also fascinating, warm, and kind. It was generally agreed among his female companions that he was "amply endowed with 'sex appeal'". Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur described him as "colossal like Russia", "an inconceivable m...
Potemkin had no legitimate descendants, though it is probable he had illegitimate issue. Four of his five sisters lived long enough to bear children, but only the daughters of his sister Marfa Elena (sometimes rendered as 'Helen') received Potemkin's special attention. The five unmarried Engelhardt sisters arrived in court in 1775 on the direction ...
Despite attempts by Paul I to play down Potemkin's role in Russian history, his name found its way into numerous items of common parlance: 1. A century after Potemkin's death, the Battleship Potemkin was named in his honour. The ship became famous for its involvement in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and subsequent dramatization in Battleship Potem...
Kaus, Gina (1935). Catherine: Portrait of an Empress. Viking.Lieven, Dominic (2003). Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-0546-5.Łojek, Jerzy (1986). Geneza i obalenie Konstytucji 3 Maja (in Polish). Wyd.Lubelskie. ISBN 978-83-222-0313-2.Montefiore, Simon Sebag (4 October 2001). Prince of Princes: the life of Potemkin. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-1-84212-438-3.Douglas Smith, Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin"Potemkin, Gregor Alexandrovitch" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Potemkin, Grigory Aleksandrovich, Prince" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). p. 205.- 1762–1791
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- Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina (alleged)
- Catherine II of Russia (possible)
'Portrait of Elisabeth Temkina', 1798. Elisabeth Temkina was reputedly the daughter of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, and her favourite, Prince Grigory Potemkin. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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20 apr 2023 · This person and his curators have been trying to exploit the historical myth about the “daughter of Catherine II” Elizabeth Temkina (Kalageorgi by her husband) for a long time. However, even if we are not critical of the fantastic biography of Kalageorgi himself, and of his kinship, then Temkina herself, at least, was not a ...
2 ago 2019 · Catherine and Peter went on to have four children: Paul Petrovich (later Tsar Paul I, Emperor of Russia), Anna (1757-1759), Alexei (1762-1813), and Elizabeth Temkina (1775-1854). Empress Elizabeth, Catherine’s aunt-in-law, took her under her wings and prepared her for her future role as empress consort of Russia.
