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...Catherine thought so highly of Potemkin that she exempted him from her standard practice of having a prospective new adjutant general first inspected by her Scottish physician, John Rogerson, for any signs of social diseases, and then "tried out" by her friend, Countess Praskovia Bruce, who is known in St. Petersburg as leprouveuse (literally, "the tester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: AuRevoir, Potemkin? | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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