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Grigorii "Bad Penny" Potemkin
12024-09-23T13:00:57+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f593Potemkin was the architect, along with Catherine II, of Russia's conquest and development of what became the southern provinces. He approved the plans for every building in Kherson. He died in 1791 and had been replaced in Catherine's bed long before that, but even Zubov lived in his shadow.plain2024-09-23T13:15:22+00:0046.638967323437186, 32.62535427602179Image generated with DALL-E 3Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12024-09-23T13:03:11+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Known to be dashing, but maybe DALL-E got carried away.Kelly O'Neill2plain2024-09-23T13:08:29+00:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5