Potemkin

Potemkin (Russian: Потёмкин, Potyomkin; or Potyomkina/Potemkina Feminine; Потёмкина) is a Russian surname which derives from the word Потёмка Potyomka meaning "dark". It may refer to:

People

• Prince Grigory Potyomkin, statesman and lover of Catherine the Great
• Pavel Potemkin, a Russian diplomat and military leader, cousin of Grigory Potemkin
• Pyotr Potemkin, a Russian diplomat and voivode

Other

• The Russian battleship Potemkin, named for Grigory Potemkin
  • The Battleship Potemkin uprising, a famous mutiny in 1905
    • The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein dealing with the mutiny
    • Battleship Potemkin (album), a 2005 album of electronic and orchestral music written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys to accompany Eisenstein's film
    • Potemkine, a song by Jean Ferrat glorifying the uprising; namesake for an album
• Potemkin village, a term for fake settlements, named after Grigory Potemkin
• Potemkin Stairs, a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine
• Potemkin, a character in Celebration, a 1969 musical by Tom Jones
• Potemkin (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games
• Potemkin City Limits, an album by the band Propagandhi
• Potemkin (architecture), a steel park by Casagrande & Rintala in Japan
• Potemkin, a fictional Soviet submarine in "To Kill the Potemkin".
• A class of Warship in the Battletech universe