Despot of yore

Usage examples of tsar.

Tsar whom, just a few years before, they had been hailing in adulatory terms for his intention to bring an end to serfdom.

Twenty men were sent up from Tsar Ivan Asen II of the Bulgarian Empire.

Pope, King Bela of Hungary, Tsar Ivan Asen of Bulgaria, and I got together and crowned Henryk King of Central Christendom.

The Tsar Alexander and his namesake heir-apparent, the Tsesarevich Alexander, wore the sapphire-blue uniform of the Ataman Kazakh Cavalry, with the massive medal of the Cross of St.

For Kikin had dashed out from London as soon as he had got word that a Russian galley was approaching Rotherhithe and, to his credit, had only been struck catatonic for thirty seconds or so after he had walked into the ship-yard to be confronted with the spectacle of the Tsar of All the Russias debating the fine points of hull design with Mr.

The play was banned by the Tsar, who thought its portrait of the merchantry - even if it was based on a story from real life - might prove damaging to its relations with the Crown.

I present that letter to the Tsaritsa, I reckon that will make us all parasites and bootlickers of the tyrannical Tsar Alexander.

In the daytime I have actually seen the tsar and tsaritsa, on foot, on the Nevskiy Prospekt.

Florian leapt down from his rockaway seat, hurried over to doff his top hat in a sweeping bow to the tsar and tsaritsa, and to make salutation on behalf of the whole Florilegium.

The tsar and tsaritsa went along the line of them, handing out gifts from trays and baskets borne by their servants.

She got what she wanted: her daughters all became ladies in waiting to the tsaritsa, her sons gentlemen of the chamber to the tsar.

The Tsar himself was a firm friend of the Entente, but the same could not be said of the Tsaritsa nor of the reactionary and disreputable influences to which she extended her patronage.

Tsarkoe Selo in a silver coffin, while the Metropolitan said mass, the Tsar and Protopopov acted as pall-bearers, and the Tsaritsa as one of the chief mourners.

But judge for yourself, if all the houses the tsars and tsaritsas stayed in are to remain empty, then where are the people going to live?

For his services the nobleman was given land and serfs, but not as outright or allodial property, as in the West, and only on condition that he served the Tsar.