The Potemkin Villages were fake settlements, erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Potemkin, to impress which monarch?
- Louis XIV
- Peter the Great
- Louis XVI
- Catherine the Great
Answer
The correct answer is D) Catherine the Great.
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