The book of the historian-archivist N.Yu. Bolotina (associate professor of the RANEPA) tells about the brilliant life of His Grace Prince G.A. Potemkin-Tauride, an outstanding administrator and commander of the second half of the 18th century. They wrote a lot about Potemkin. An unusual person, an extraordinary personality, the serene one aroused a variety of emotions both among contemporaries and descendants.