>>64232132
What?
...eh.. NO!

That's a mock-up picture of Putin as one of the later-era Czars, aking to Alexander the second, or somesuch. It's a carricature, to show how Putin fashions himself to be the next Czar of the Russian empire, despite being nothing like it.

Now, where you do hit home is the "potemkin" part, if we assume that Putin is just a Potemkin-village ruler. Someone who masks rotting surfaces with new paint, in order to (hopefully) fool people to think that these are healthy and well-faring villages, and not starving russian shit-holes, like they really are.
Yeah, Russia ahas a long and well documented history of "just give it a new coat of paint and make it seem as if it's not about to collapse on it's own weight".