Potemkin
Potemkin: ЛОТЕМКИН
On a Maltese Cross arg and encircled by the collar of the Order
of St John with its pendant:
Gu a senestrochère embowed vambraced or issuant from a cloud and holding a sabre
ppr garnished of the last.2 On a chief gu a cross arg.
The Potemkin Family Achievement2
Sources (Blazon):
1. Rietstap, J.B.: ARMORIAL GÉNÉRAL [2éme ed., G.B van Goor Zonen, Gouda 1884]
2. Mandrich, Donald R. & Placek, Joseph A.: Russian Heraldry and Nobility [Dramco Publishers, Boynton Beach, Florida 1992]
3. Unattributed
