Potemkins' Legacy

History is a creeping, fanatic obsession of mine; for example, have you ever heard of Grigory Potemkin? He was a general and aristocrat under Catherine the Great, and apparently was a pretty important guy. He accomplished all kinds of stuff, and most importantly, he was very big on the monarchy.
Fast forward to our modern age, and what is the name 'Potemkin' best known for? A quick google search reveals it is a) The Battleship Potemkin, a film about a mutiny on a battleship, named for Potemkin, during the communist revolution. Although considered a classic film, it was directed by Sergei Eisenstein, it is also basically communist propaganda.
He is also known for b) the potemkin village; basically, he built fake villages to fool Catherine the Great into thinking that the Russian peasants were happy and succesful. This is apparently a metaphor in common usage today, although it is also probably false. He never actually built any fake villages; it was probably a rumor started by his rivals.
So you're Potemkin, you work your whole life for Russia. You lead armies, start some towns, maybe you fuck Catherine the Great. What's your legacy? Cheating your queen, and communist propaganda. That's gotta suck.