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chap, the stone used for their construction resembled 
, MI1 ' , that porous, though durable limestone, which 
the first Grecian colonies in Italy employed in 
erecting the temples of Pcestum : but the Russians 
had white-washed every thing, and by that 
means had given to their works the meanness of 
plaster. One of the first things we asked to 
see, was the tomb of Potemkin. All Europe 
has heard that he was buried in Cherson ; and a 
magnificent sepulchre might naturally be ex- 
pected for a person so renowned. The reader 
will imagine our surprise, when, in answer to 
our inquiries concerning his remains, we were 
told that no one knew what was become of them. 
Potemkin, the illustrious, the powerful, of all the 
princes that ever lived the most princely; of all 
Imperial favourites, the most favoured ; had not 
a spot which might be called his grave. He, 
who not only governed all Russia, but even made 
the haughty Catherine his suppliant, had not 
the distinction possessed by the humblest of the 
human race. The particulars respecting the 
ultimate disposal of his body, as they were com- 
municated to us upon the spot, on the most cre- 
dible testimony, merit a cursory detail. 
Bm iai of The corpse, soon after his death \ was brought 
Potemkin. 
(1) Potemkin died October 15, 1791, aged 52, during a journey 
from Yassy to Nicholaef, and actually expired in a ditch, near to 
the 
