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tsarist

a. 1 expressing support for a tsar 2 from the time of the tsar in Russia 3 autocratic alt. one who supports a tsar n. one who supports a tsar

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tsarist

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a czar [syn: czarist, czaristic, tsaristic, tzarist]

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But he was from the first an irrepressible individualist with a hatred of the arbitrariness of tsarist power.

But although he remained dry, undynamic, and lackluster as a minister, Nabokov was committed to an independent judiciary, and steadfastly opposed attempts to overturn the 1864 reforms and to make justice once again a mere weapon in the tsarist arsenal.

CDs would have been simply moderate liberals, but in tsarist Russia their confidence that they were backed by both moral right and public opinion and their determination to establish a new system of government despite the wishes of those who held power made them radical reformers.

Russian literature that their first commandment, that art should have no other gods before the cause of social reform, had established a censorship of the left no less oppressive than the censorship of the tsarist bureaucracy.

April 1849 the Petrashevsky circle was broken up by the tsarist police, and its ringleaders, including Dostoevsky, were arrested and charged with subversion.

For the Slavophiles, the principles of tsarist rule were completely different from those which had underpinned autocracy in the West.

The richest dynasties of the aristocracy had all stood near the summit of the Tsarist state during its great territorial expansion between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries and had consequently been rewarded with lavish endowments of fertile land in the south of Russia and Ukraine.

It is certainly conceivable that the selfishness and cruelty towards the serfs that ran right through the governing elites of Tsarist Russia went back in some cases to the formative experiences of childhood.

Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister and last reformist hope of Tsarist Russia between 1906 and 1911.

It would not have come to this, if the tsarist authorities had left Tolstoy alone.

Golden Horde broke up and the Tsarist state pushed east, many of the Mongols who had served the khan remained in Russia and entered into service in the court of Muscovy.

The Russian empire grew by settlement, and the Russians who moved out into the frontier zones, some to trade or farm, others to escape from Tsarist rule, were just as likely to adopt the native culture as they were to impose their Russian way of life on the local tribes.

Bashkir pastoralists had risen up in a series of revolts against the Tsarist state, as Russian settlers had begun to move on to their ancient grazing lands.

After the suppression of the rebellion, the Tsarist authorities reinforced the town of Orenburg.

Brought up as a Russian nobleman, Izmail Bey abandons his commission in the Russian army and takes up the defence of his Chechen countrymen, whose villages are destroyed by the Tsarist troops.