Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
player literary critic playwright translator poet
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
In winter 1912, he played with Alexander Alekhine and Vasily Osipovich Smyslov (father of Vasily Smyslov) in Sankt St. Petersburg. Count Potemkine was a Soviet expatriate living in France. He officially represented Russia in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924.
In 1926, Le Cercle d"échecs Potemkine was established in Paris.