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What does His Serene Highness Prince Potemkin have to do with the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa?

Many mistakenly believe that the Potemkin Stairs in Odessa is named after His Grace Prince Grigory Potemkin. In fact, this building was built after his death on the initiative of Count Mikhail Vorontsov and for a long time had no official name at all. After the release of the film "Battleship Potemkin" by Sergei Eisenstein, the inhabitants of Odessa began to call the Potemkin staircase, and only in the 1950s this name was fixed in the documents.

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