tzar
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This conspiracy assumed a very formidable attitude, and one of the brothers of the tzar was involved in it.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The tzar, reposing entire confidence in the London merchants, entered into their views and promised to grant them every facility for the transportation of English merchandise, even to the remotest sections of the empire.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
This name also occurs, though in a somewhat altered form, as "Wegorscoi tzar," on Isaac Massa's map of 1612, which, according to the statement of the publisher, is a copy of a Russian chart.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
The embassador could only regret that the rich presents of furs and Russian fabrics which the tzar had sent by his hand to Mary, were all engulfed upon the coast of Scotland.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The millionaire who demands vengeance against this broken man to-day has an income greater than the combined crowned heads of Europe and wields a sceptre mightier than tzar or emperor.
From The Root of Evil by Thomas Dixon