Potemkin, Russian officer, born at Smolensk, of Polish descent; a handsome man with a powerful physique, who attracted the attention of Catharine II., became one of her chief favourites, and directed the foreign policy of Russia under her for 13 years; is understood to have been an able man, but unscrupulous (1736‒1771).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Post Restante * Potomac River