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Potemkin Villages (Потемкинские деревни): The Story Behind the Russian Idiom

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04 Aug 2021
Potemkin Villages (Потемкинские деревни): The Story Behind the Russian Idiom

Leila Shannon
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Catherine II, Catherine the Great, Potemkin Villages, Russian history, Russian idioms, Russian language, Russian sayings

Potemkin Villages (Потемкинские деревни): The Story Behind the Russian Idiom
Потемкинские деревни, which can be translated as Potemkin villages, is a curious idiom found in Russian, which is also sometimes used in English. It is used to describe a ...
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