The Wider Family of Prince Potemkin
Alexander (Potempski)
Hans-Tarasy Potemkin
Ivan Illarion
Simeon
Gabriel
Sila
Ivan
Peter Ivanovich (diplomat of Tsars Alexei and Fyodor)
I
Stepan
I
Fyodor
Vasily
Dmitri
Alexander 1675-1746 = Daria V. Skouratova 1704-80
Sergei
Prince GA Potemkin-Tavrichesky
= ? Catherine II the Great
Inner Family overleaf
Ivan
Count Pavel Potemkin 1743-96 = Praskovia A. Zakrevskaya
Mikhail Potemkin
1744-91 = Tatiana Engelhardt
Peter
Count Grigory +Battle of Borodino 1812
This family tree shows the main characters featured in the book and is not meant to be complete - married + died
Count Sergei = Princess Elisabeth Trubetskaya
Alexander = Princess Tatiana Golitsyna
Ekaterina = Count Alexander Ribeaupierre
Anna 1740-1820 = MM Zhukov
Vasily
1758-1829 ♦
illegit
Varvara 1757-1845 = Prince SF Golitsyn
Nadezhda 1761-1834 =
PA Ismailov
The Inner Family of Prince Potemkin including Favourite Nieces and Nephews
I
Marfa Elena = Vasily A. Engelhardt
PA Shepilev
Alexandra 1754-1838 = K.Branicki
issue including Elisabeth (Lise) 1792-1880 = Prince MS Vorontsov
issue including Princess Sophia
Vorontsova possible natural daughter of AS Pushkin
Tatiana 1769-1841= (i) Mikhail Potemkin + 1791
I
issue
I
(ii) Prince NB Yusupov
(i) Count = PM Skavronsky + 1793
(ii) Lord Howden
Ekaterina = (ii) Count 1761- J. Litta 1829
issue including (i) Prince PI = Ekaterina = Bagratian Battle of Borodino + 1812
issue including Clementine natural daughter of Prince Metternich
This family tree shows the main characters featured in the book and is not meant to be complete
Prince Felix Yusupov-Elsten
murderer of Rasputin 1916
- married + died
Alexander Potemkin
1675-1746 = Daria V. Skouratova 1704-80
Prince GA Potemkin- Tavrichesky
= ? Catherine П the Great
Maria m. Nicolai B. Samoilov
Pelagia Daria Nadezhda
= Peter E. = Alexander +1757 Vysotsky A. Likachev
Count Alexander N.
Samoilov 1744-1814 = Princess Ekaterina Trubetskaya
(E. Temkina = IX Kalageorgi)
Ekaterina = (ii) LD = (i) NS Raevsky Davydov
issue including
Sofia = Count AA Bobrinsky
I
Vasily
Alexander
Г
Nikolai N. Raevsky 1771-1829 = Sophia Konstantinova
AN Raevsky + 1790 Battle of Ismail
Alexander Nikolai Other issue
including Maria = Prince Sergei Volkonsky exiled after Decembrist Revolt
NOTES
prologue: death on the steppes
V. S. Popov's reports to Catherine II on GAP's illness are the main source for this account of his demise unless otherwise ascribed: RGVIA 52.2.94.3-26 and RA (1878) 1 pp 20-5. G. Derzhavin, The Waterfall, in H. G. Segal, The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia vol 2 p 302.
RGADA 5.85.1.124-5, L 153 / SIRIO 27: 217, CtG to GAP 30 September 1782.
Prince de Ligne, Letters and Reflections, ed Baroness de Stael vol 2 p 6, Prince de Ligne to Comte de Segur 1 August 1788.
M. M. Ivanov's print, Hermitage E: 22158. Commissioned by V. S. Popov and Countess A. V. Branicka. Oddly, though Popov was apparently awaiting the Turkish plenipotentiaries in Jassy and was not at the death scene, he is pictured there, doubtless on his own orders. Ivanov was GAP's house artist and travelled in his entourage. See Chapter 23. This is not the only print of GAP's death: see also Death ofG. A. Potemkin, an engraving by G. I. Skourodytov showing only head and torso of the dead Prince, arms crossed over his chest.
James Harris, Diaries and Correspondence p 281, Sir James Harris to Viscount Stormont 21 July/i August 1780.
Author's visit to Moldova 1998.
Ligne, Letters (Stael) p 97, Prince de Ligne to Prince Kaunitz November 1788.
SIRIO 23 (1878): 571, CtG to Baron E M. Grimm August 1792. K. Waliszewski, Autour d'un trone vol 1 p 141.
AKV 13: 216-22, A. A. Bezborodko to P. V. Zavadovsky 5 December 1791, Jassy.
RGADA 5.85.1.429. L 470, CtG to GAP 3 October 1791.
RGADA 5.85.2.304. L 470, CtG to GAP.
RGVIA 52.2.22.191. L 470, CtG to GAP October 1791.
C. F. P. Masson, Secret Memoirs p 109.
The author's visit to Moldova 1998.
RA 1867 A. N. Samoilov, 'Zhizn i deyania Generala Feld Marshal Knyazya Gri- goriya Alexandrovicha Potemkina-Tavricheskogo' col 1558.
Samoilov col 1558.
L. N. Engelhardt, Zapiski 1868 p 96.