tsars
Pre-revolutionary Russian monarchs
Tsars is the plural of tsar, the title of Russian emperors from the sixteenth century until the 1917 revolution.
The word derives from Caesar.
Tsar extends to anyone with supreme authority over a domain: a drug tsar, a media tsar.
In American government, czar (the more common spelling in the US) designates officials appointed to coordinate policy: the border czar, the climate czar.
Domain under unified control
- palaceMonarch's official residence
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
boyars · serfdom · bureaucracy · territory · expansion · annexation · colonialism · conquest
Total, without qualification
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
- despotRuler with absolute power
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
- oppressorOne who dominates cruelly
iron-fisted · totalitarian · decree · divine right · supreme · unchallenged · centralized · Okhrana
Following in order
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heirOne who receives legacy
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
coronation · reign · Romanov · hereditary · regency · crown prince · tsarevna · house
Male ruler of empire
- kingMale crowned ruler
- sultanMuslim royal ruler
- kaiserPatterned crusty roll
- shahIranian hereditary ruler
pharaoh · khan · sovereign · monarch · potentate · regent · autocrat · majesty
Last imperial Russian ruler
- AlexandraName meaning defender
- AnastasiaName meaning resurrection
- AlexeiRussian masculine given name
- RasputinSiberian mystic, imperial influence
Fabergé · Winter Palace · 1917 · Bolsheviks · Olga · Tatiana · Maria · Peter the Great
empire
Domain under unified control
aristocracy · boyars · serfdom · bureaucracy · territory · expansion · annexation · colonialism · conquest · realm
absolute
Total, without qualification
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
- despotRuler with absolute power
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
oppressor · iron-fisted · totalitarian · decree · divine right · supreme · unchallenged · centralized · Okhrana · censorship
succession
Following in order
throne · coronation · reign · Romanov · hereditary · regency · crown prince · tsarevna · house · royal
emperor
Male ruler of empire
shah · pharaoh · khan · sovereign · monarch · potentate · regent · autocrat · majesty · highness
Nicholas II
Last imperial Russian ruler
Rasputin · Fabergé · Winter Palace · 1917 · Bolsheviks · Olga · Tatiana · Maria · Peter the Great · Catherine the Great
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- eliteelite, elites, aristocrats, nobility, best
- EmperorsAugustus, Nero, Caligula, Claudius, Trajan
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, Romanov, Russian Revolution, USSR, Russian Empire
- Romanov RussiaPeter the Great, Catherine the Great, Romanov, empress, Russian Empire
- Russia literatureDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev
tsarsdemocrats
Believers in popular sovereignty
presidents · prime ministers · parliamentarians · commoners · subjects
tsarsserfs
Feudal bound laborers
peasants · commoners · subjects · the masses · slaves
tsarsBolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
commissars · revolutionaries · Lenin · Soviets · communists
- tsarist RussiaMonarchy before the Bolsheviks
- Tsar Nicholas IIFinal Romanov ruler
- Russian tsarImperial Russian sovereign
- Tsar BombaLargest nuclear weapon detonated
- Tsar NicholasImperial Russian ruler