Tsars

Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism. The term is derived from the Latin word Caesar, which was intended to mean "Emperor" in the European medieval sense of the term—a ruler with the same rank as a Roman emperor, with-holding it by the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch)—but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in ...more

Tsars Books

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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Baboushka and the Three Kings by Ruth Robbins

The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Alexander Pushkin

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship by Arthur Ransome

Tour of Russia

92 books — 23 voters

Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark Galeotti

Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic by Francis Young

The Hussite Wars 1419–36 by Stephen Turnbull

Early Modern Eastern Europe

24 books — 6 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Of Kings and Queens

477 books — 202 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Royalty

1,748 books — 181 voters

Russia in YA & Middle Grade Historical Fiction

118 books — 71 voters

The Passion of Marie Romanov by Laura Rose

Best Russian Historical Fiction

91 books — 39 voters

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“ By 1937 Soviet standards, mementos of Russian history before the 1917 revolution were irrelevant. Even the suggestion that china, jewelry, or furniture created for the imperial palaces of the tsars was worth more than its weight in gold might be construed as anti-Soviet propaganda. ”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

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