today in the center of our attention is potemkin tavrichesky. grigory alexandrovich potemkin, tavrichesky he received later for the conquest of crimea. he is actually from the smolensk nobles, his father rose only to the rank of major, and died early, he was raised by his mother, but in general from the very beginning he was in... to a large extent lucky, in any case he received his primary education at a school that existed in the german sloboda, jaagan litka, well, at that time, he was probably the most important germanist, so to speak, in russian pedagogy, because he was invited, at first he worked at the st. petersburg gymnasium, then he taught at moscow state university, and he even taught at the page corps, so this, well , indirectly, can testify to the fact that potemkin had a primary education was not bad at all, then he entered the moscow state university, in the first year he showed absolutely excellent knowledge, received a gold medal. a little later, he was among the best students presented to empress elizabeth petrovna. however, aft

under catherine, this resettlement policy, which was supported potemkin.ting to note, maybe you and i. someday - we will take this topic: information wars, yes, because, actually, the first blows from western europe, informational ones against peter the great, began with exactly the same thing, with announcements about inviting foreign specialists, and against this they used informational, so to speak, attacks, every time this happened. a widespread sin, yes, very much, to catherine, too, especially in the beginning, more like a man, she was even forced justify herself to him that she had not accepted his feelings earlier, in general, there is much more that could be discussed, but we have concentrated on that part of potemkin's legacy that refutes the myths spread about him, based, what is also important to say, on the latest research, which, fortunately, is being published, i think, will continue to be published in the future. this was the historical podcast russia-west on the swings of history, we talked today about the most serene prince potemkin. with

well, in short, potemkin's arguments convinced catherine. it is also worth adding that the main the enemy of russia in foreign policy at that time remained france, which relied on that eastern barrier you already mentioned, which was sweden in the north, the polish-lithuanian commonwealth in the west, and in the south - perhaps the main part of this eastern. this is the ottoman empire with the crimean khanate, a vassal to it, and france could overthrow this eastern barrier with its allies either against austria in the event of some problems with austria, or, accordingly, against russia. louis x generally put it this way, we must to drive the russians into the same forests and swamps from which they had so recklessly emerged, that is, up until this point. and turkey was the main part of this barrier, the crimean khanate such a spearhead, especially since it is necessary. to understand that the crimean khanate is not only pure crimea, yes, it is also the neighboring tauride regions, which later became the tauride province, and this is often pl

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general potemkin was explaining how peasants lived and they lived awful lives but to show the generaley built a special village where everything was just marvelous and everybody could only dream about life like that and that's where the village was. so he invited writers, 3 of them as when they came back they started saying, writing the soviet union is a paradise, everybody in the working class is happy and has everything they need. >> workers paradise. >> workers paradise. >> you grew up in what was than the soviet union and latvia which is now a free country but at the time but i >> it was part of the soviet union. >> when did you come to the united states and what was your perception of presidents general land ronald reagan specifically? >> good question. i came here in 1976 at the end of the ford administration and the next president was jimmy carter and after a couple of years living under jimmy carter, i started to wonder did i do the right thing? but then came ronald reagan and i knew that it was the right thing. >> i want to pose to all of you. [applause] >> as each of you pre

i don't know if you know what it is it's it's during the czar time the general potemkin inspecting how peasants and they lived lives but to show the general that lived they build special village wherever was just marvelous and everybody only dream about life like that and so that's where the potomac in the village comes. so how it started when it he invited those writers treated them and then when they came back they started saying writing that the soviet union is a paranoid guys that everybody is working classes and everybody has they need and and the workers paradise is a workers party workers paradise. all right. so ilya, you up in what was then the soviet union and latvia, which is now a free country at the time was it was the part of the soviet. and when did you come to the united? and what was your perception of presidents generally and ronald reagan specifically? it's a good question because i came here in 1976, by the end of the fall administration and then the next president, jimmy carter, after a couple of years living under jimmy carter, i started wonder, did i do the right

in fact, in general, this is a fact, catherine saw this diamond in the figure of potemkin, and then cut it according to the parameters, according to the calculations that she needed, so it is not at all accidental that this couple, these two people, went to the end together. potemkin, was distinguished by a rather serious breadth of views, he, for example, was quite well versed in church affairs, was certainly. a person, but he treated religion in general quite calmly, the church quite calmly, as one of the assistants to the chief prosecutor of the holy synod, he church line at first began a court career, although a strange idea, it seems he started in the horse guard units, he took part in the coup, oh, since the time of peter the great, to jump from position to position, but here it was fully deserved, since from his youth he was interested. church life, he was interested in spiritual matters, knew the sacred texts well, and took part in the development of the secularization policy of catherine ii, not in the leading roles, of course, but he was one of the conductors of this policy. a