Pyotr Potemkin: Facts

Categories: 17th-century births > 1700 deaths > Russian nobility > Russian diplomats > Politics of Muscovy > People of the Russo-Polish War 1654-1667 (Russian side)

17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?

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