Potemkin vs politico

Potemkin and politico both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Potemkin	Yes	No	No	No
politico	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, politico is a hypernym of Potemkin; that is, politico is a word with a broader meaning than Potemkin:

Potemkin: a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
politico: a person active in party politics

Other hypernyms of Potemkin include military officer, officer, pol, political leader, politician.

Potemkin (noun)	politico (noun)
a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)	a person active in party politics