Potemkin shortly before his death, April 1791.
Battleship Potemkin- the ship of revolution.
The Potemkin arrives at the port of Odessa.
Strike( 1925) Battleship Potemkin.
Strike( 1925) The Battleship Potemkin.
Potemkin became Catherine's 3rd favorite,
she was 10 years older.
Eisenstein's film“Battleship Potemkin” was shown in Germany for the first time.
Potemkin's private quarters in the Winter Palace were located directly above the Empress's bedroom.
Foreign ambassadors, who were at the Russian court, noted that Potemkin's tastes were“barbaric, truly Muscovite”;
That was the way the unusual love triangle“Catherine- Potemkin is a young favorite”, which ultimately formed the empress's“family”.
But here's the problem: that
so-called self-esteem that makes them seem so self-assured has all the makings of a Potemkin village.
At the end of January, Potemkin, who still did not play any significant role in
the empress, decided that he should act.
They included an officer on the Potemkin, an artillery officer Vakulenchuk,
who maintained constant contacts with local revolutionary organizations of many Russian ports.
The battleship Potemkin possessed a displacement of 12.9 tons,
the length of its hull was 113 meters, width 22 at a draft of 8.4.
Potemkin, supporting the chain of command,
deprived Senyavin of the rank of adjutant general, removed from the post of commander of the ship and sent him under arrest.
He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike(1925), Battleship Potemkin(1925) and October(1928),
as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky(1938) and Ivan the Terrible 1944, 1958.
The perfect, harmonious continuity of his creation and thinking reaches, through this film, sonic cinematography, the next step being his famous vertical montage, audio-visual,
whose premise exists ever since"Potemkin".
Wanting to visit Catherine, Potemkin at any time, day or night,
had to climb a spiral staircase, lined with green carpet(it was believed that green was the color of love).
Catherine's lover Gregory Potemkin allegedly built a series of temporary villages
in Crimea that were clean, pretty, and filled with happy, healthy farmers to show Catherine when she toured her lands.
Already at the very beginning of his rise, Potemkin showed himself to be a cunning strategist and director,
who carefully thought through the dramaturgical intrigue around his relationship with the empress.
The key point in the history of the final conquest of Catherine's heart was a kind of theatrical“performance”,
with the help of which Potemkin managed to get his beloved to decide on a final explanation.
According to one of the versions, the legend was born from the essay of the Saxon diplomat
Georg Gelbig, who returned from a trip to the Crimea in 1787 together with the empress, organized by Prince Potemkin.
Some other authors also disseminated contradictory and not always reliable information, including on the Empress's love affairs, but, as
they say,“there is no smoke without fire”- anything could be expected from Potemkin, who was inclined to theatricality.