“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.” — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a… — Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Copy Share Image
And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked. "Peasants, your majesty." "Pheasants?" "No! Peasants.” — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Do Boga vysoko, do Tsarya daleko, God is high up, and the tsar is far away,” she whispered. Anything can happen, and… — Jason Matthews Copy Share Image
The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar,… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-" Sun." After the darkness-" Light." And after the illness-" Health." Exactly,"… — Robert Alexander Copy Share Image
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions. — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of… — Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Copy Share Image
“Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“Nikolai did not want to be rescued from that special house and restored to the brilliancy of the Romanov throne, of this… — Robert Alexander Copy Share Image
“There, weeping, a tsarevna lies locked in a cell. And Master Grey Wolf serves her very well. There, in her mortar, sweeping… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“It amazes me still to this day how quickly the empire fell to pieces. One day the people are kissing the ground… — Robert Alexander Copy Share Image
“In the mind of the ordinary peasant the Tsar was not just a kingly ruler but a god on earth. He thought… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“There were a few small slips: after the first lunch on board the Tsar’s yacht Standart, the Kaiser drew Sazonov apart and… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“In London, Alexander knows, they like neither his sister nor himself. Society considers the Tsar silly and vain, a ballroom dancer with… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“And then what happens to all of us every day happened to him—he fell asleep without knowing himself when or how. He… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now, I regarded my opponent carefully, as if we were sitting across from each other over a chessboard. Zagaev had a round… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“[Aftermath of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881] What happened to the conspirators - Zhelyabov already in prison, Perovskaya, Kibalchich… — Edward Crankshaw Copy Share Image
“Marya put down her fork. “Why are you doing this, Koschei? I have had lovers before. You have, too. Remember Marina? The… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The revolution has decreed that the former tsar, Nicholai Romanov, is guilty of countless bloody crimes against his people and is to… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
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