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  • n  a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)

  • In June 1929, the Episcopal liberal weekly The Churchman published an attack on Tsar Hays, called him a "window-dresser," suggested that he was an "office-boy" rather than "tsar.
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  • Russia in color, a century ago
    With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas ...
    June 22, 2013 - Boston Globe
Quotes

  • Ayman al-Zawahri in guardian.co.uk
    The tsar of Washington invited 16 Arab countries ...... to sit in one room, at one table with the Israelis,Zawahiri said, adding that the conference "witnessed the betrayal deals to sell Palestine".
  • Gennady Zyuganov in Reuters South Africa
    He (President Vladimir Putin) has more power today than the Pharaoh of Egypt, the Tsar, and the Soviet Union's General Secretary combined,veteran Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov told a party congress on the outskirts of Moscow.
  • Gleb Pavlovsky in Sydney Morning Herald
    We can forget our favourite cliche that in Russia, the president is the tsar,Pavlovsky said, speaking on the sidelines of the congress after Putin's announcement.

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