title: 4. Eden in the Tauride Palace: Potemkin’s Last Project
abstract: S emen Bobrov's long poem in which the conquest of Crimea is interpreted not as a stage in the "Greek Project" but as the symbolic apotheosis of Russian expansion in the south was only published after Catherine II's death.The late empress would hardly have approved of this kind of revision of her cherished plans.Until her last days the empress remained convinced both of their feasibility and of their benefit for Russia (see Ragsdale 1988).At the same time her notion of how long it might take to 
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