Russian tsars
Romanov dynasty rulers
Russian tsars were the emperors who ruled Russia from the 16th century until the 1917 revolution.
The title tsar derives from Caesar, claiming imperial authority.
The tsars held absolute power over a vast empire, and references to them typically evoke autocratic rule, imperial grandeur, or the feudal system that kept most Russians as serfs: He ran the company like one of the Russian tsars.
- Time of TroublesRussian political chaos period
- peasant revoltLower-class armed insurrection
- palaceMonarch's official residence
- autocracyRule by one
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
serfdom · Romanov dynasty · coronation regalia · double-headed eagle · absolutism · secret police · Fabergé eggs · blood diamonds · imperial expansion · military reforms · beard · feudalism · bureaucracy · dynastic marriages · noble titles · court intrigue · orb · throne
Russian tsarsBolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
Lenin · Soviet leaders · Red Army · Trotsky · Stalin
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