The Potemkin Village

by Gregor Sailer, Walter Moser, Judith Lehner, et al.

According to legend, the phrase Potemkin village can be traced back to the Russian field marshal Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin. In 1787, the minion of Catherine the Great purportedly had entire villages erected as painted fa ades along the paths of her travels to the recently conquered Crimean territory in an effort to veil the true, run-down face of the region. Following Closed Cities (Kehrer 2012), Gregor Sailer's new project once again...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3868288279
• ISBN13: 9783868288278
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.5" x 11.8"