Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A lokacin rani da kaka na 1789 an sami nasarori da yawa akan Turkawa, gami da Yaƙin Focşani a watan Yuli; a farkon Satumba, Yaƙin Rymnik
da kama duka Kaushany da Hadjibey (Odessa na zamani); kuma a ƙarshe mika wuya na sansanin soja na Turkiyya a Akkerman a ƙarshen Satumba. Babban sansanin soja a Bender ya mika wuya a watan Nuwamba ba tare da yaki ba. Potemkin ya buɗe fadar sarauta a Jassy, babban birnin Moldavia, don "ya yi hunturu kamar sultan, ya yi farin ciki da ƙawayensa, ya gina garuruwansa, ya kafa rundunarsa, kuma ya yi sulhu da [Turkawa]... shi ne sarkin duk abin da ya gani". Potemkin har ma ya kafa jarida, "Le Courrier de Moldavie". Abokinsa da ya fi so a lokacin - ko da yake yana da wasu - shine Praskovia Potemkina, wani al'amari wanda ya ci gaba har zuwa 1790. Potemkin ya sake suna biyu jiragen ruwa a cikin girmamawa. A matsayin wani ɓangare na dabarun diflomasiyya, an ba Potemkin sabon taken "Babban Hetman na Bahar Maliya da Yekaterinoslav Cossack Hosts" kuma a watan Maris ya karɓi ikon mallakar jirgin ruwan Bahar Maliya a matsayin Babban Admiral.