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