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Pyotr Potemkin

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Pyotr Potemkin by Godfrey Kneller

Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (Russian: Пётр Ива́нович Потёмкин; 1617–1700), also spelled Potyomkin, was a Russian courtier, diplomat and namestnik of Borovsk during the reigns of tsars Alexis I and Feodor III. He was a voivode during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) and took Lublin in 1655^[1] and laid siege to Nyenschantz and Noteborg in 1656.^[2] Later he became a stolnik working as the tsar's ambassador.

^ Brian Davies, Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700, (Routledge, 2007), 122.
^ Peter Englund, Den oövervinnerlige, (Atlantis, 2000)

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