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Tsar (/ z ɑːr, (t) s ɑːr /; also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; Bulgarian: цар, romanized: tsar; Russian: царь, romanized: tsar'; Serbian: цар, car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.
May 8, 2024 · Tsar, title associated primarily with rulers of Russia. The term tsar, a form of the ancient Roman imperial title caesar, generated a series of derivatives in Russian: tsaritsa, a tsar’s wife, or tsarina; tsarevich, his son; tsarevna, his daughter; and tsesarevich, his eldest son and heir apparent.
The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.
The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th century, and ends with Nicholas II, who abdicated in 1917, and was executed with his family in 1918. Two dynasties have ruled Russia: the Rurikids (862–1598) and Romanovs (from 1613).
Nov 29, 2023 · Tsar (also czar) is a Slavic term derived from the Latin caesar. Ivan III (Ivan the Great) (r. 1462-1505) was the first Russian ruler to begin using the title of tsar during his reign instead of the...
Aug 7, 2019 · Equivalent to a king or an emperor, the czar was the autocratic, all-powerful ruler of Russia, an institution that lasted from the mid-16th to the early 20th centuries. The 10 most important Russian czars and empresses range from the grouchy Ivan the Terrible to the doomed Nicholas II. 01.
4 days ago · Russia - Tsars, Soviets, Putin: The table provides a chronological list of the leaders of Russia from 1276 onward.
5 days ago · The tsar resented the Austrian action as showing ingratitude toward the power that had saved Austria from the Hungarian rebels in 1849. When the British and French were unable to attack in the principalities, they decided to send an expedition to Crimea to destroy the Russian naval base at Sevastopol .
Ivan IV (1530-1584) was the first to be crowned and anointed to Tsardom as the Tsar of All Russia in 1547. He revisited the Russian legislation in his Code of Laws of 1550, established...
Russians called the Byzantine Emperor ‘tsar’. It was also used to refer to Biblical and ancient kings. However, Russians didn’t call foreign monarchs tsars – even ironically. They were ...
