tsardom
Pre-revolutionary Russian rule
Tsardom is the domain, reign, or system of government under a tsar—the title used by Russian emperors and other Slavic monarchs.
It can refer to the territory ruled: the vast tsardom stretched across two continents.
It also denotes the institution or era of tsarist rule: the fall of the tsardom in 1917.
Also spelled czardom.
Unrestricted governmental authority
- despotismAbsolute one-person rule
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- autocratSole wielder of power
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
sovereignty · dominion · rule · power · decree · obedience · subjugation · oppression
Moscow's fortified government seat
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- RomanovImperial Russian ruling family
- Ivan the TerribleRussia's first tsar
- Peter the GreatRussian emperor, early 1700s
Catherine the Great · Slavic · Duma · Bolsheviks · serfdom · Time of Troubles · Decembrists · pogroms
absolutism
Unrestricted governmental authority
- despotismAbsolute one-person rule
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
- autocratSole wielder of power
authoritarianism · sovereignty · dominion · rule · power · decree · obedience · subjugation · oppression · divine right
Kremlin
Moscow's fortified government seat
- MoscowRussia's capital city
- RomanovImperial Russian ruling family
- Ivan the TerribleRussia's first tsar
Peter the Great · Catherine the Great · Slavic · Duma · Bolsheviks · serfdom · Time of Troubles · Decembrists · pogroms · Westernization
tsarina
Russian emperor's wife
- tsarevnaRussian imperial daughter
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
scepter · coronation · dynasty · palace · court · nobility · aristocracy · sovereign · majesty · Winter Palace
empire
Domain under unified control
annexation · vassal · hegemony · colonization · Siberia · Alaska · Poland · Finland · Caucasus · Baltic
- monarchiesmonarch, monarchy, realm, sultanate, emirate
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Romanov, czars, Russian Revolution
- Absolutismabsolute monarch, absolute power, absolute rule, absolutism, autocracy
- Bulgarian Empiretsars, khans, Cyrillic alphabet, boyars, patriarchate
- Ivan the TerribleIvan the Terrible, Moscow, Kremlin, boyars, reign of terror
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
tsardomrepublic
State with elected leaders
democracy · constitutional democracy · republicanism · democratic republic · parliamentary democracy
tsardomSoviet Union
Former communist superstate
communism · Bolshevism · Soviet regime · Russian Federation · Leninism
tsardomanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
communism · socialism · egalitarianism · populism · direct democracy
- Tsardom of RussiaRussian monarchy, 1547-1721