Rusya’nın Bir Karadeniz Devleti Olması Sürecinde Grigoriy Aleksandroviç Potemkin 1768-1791
Grigoriy Alexandrovich Potemkin in the Process of Russia Becoming a Black Sea State 1768-1791

Summary/Abstract: The fact that Aleksandrovich Potemkin was much adored by Catherine II had quickly led to an important advancement in his career. Perhaps is most important and lifelong role, given that he rewarded many ranks and missions from the Queen, was his position as the general governor of New Russia (Novorossiya). Achieving the domination of Russia over the New Russian lands—which contain the lands in the north of the Black Sea in Modern Ukraine—suggests Aleksandrovich Potemkin’s assumed importance in the presence of Catherine II. During the 1768-1774 Russo-Turkish Wars, Potemkin observed that General Rumyantsev’s army could not have benefited from those lands in any way, shape, or form. Thus, all efforts of Potemkin at New Russian lands were to benefit from that geography for the anticipated Russo-Turkish wars that would later occur in the years to come. In accordance with that aim, not only had Potemkin built cities, dockyards, harbours, fleets in the lands in the north of the Black Sea within a short time period, but he had also transferred many people from the Balkans and various parts of Russia to the new region in order to change their demographic structures for the benefit of Russia. The political foresight of Potemkin was correct: during the next Russo-Turkish War, the Black Sea region indeed had played an important role in terms of economy, military, human power, and logistics.

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