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But in Russia, where the notion of a tsar survived the Soviet Union, divided power is usually problematic.

In 1698 Tsar Peter I is reported to have said, "If I were not tsar, I would wish to be an admiral [of the navy in] Great Britain. "

The dinner was almost over, the Tsar got up, and still munching a biscuit, came out on the balcony.

The Tsar walked in rapidly, bowing to right and to left, as though trying to hurry over the first moments of greeting.

The first one describes the years of his governing and justifies his cruel methods. They say the tsar himself edited this book.

The Tsar turned with a smile to one of his courtiers, pointing to the gallant-looking Apsheron regiment, and said something to him.

He was seen as having greatly influenced the later days of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra.

Second, they maintained that in some peculiar way the Ottoman empire was more friendly to its Christian subjects than the tsar was.

"His Majesty Alexander II, Tsar of All the Russias, " she said. But her voice was trembling.

The field-marshal fixed an hour to see him, received him cordially , and promised to lay it before the Tsar.

He would force the reluctant Tsar to face him in open combat.

In the name of the tsar, they demanded pelts as yasak (tribute) from reindeer herders, steppes nomads and hunter-gatherers.

the tsar was breathing hard and rapidly , his lower lip was twitching , and his fine blue eyes were for a moment wet with tears.

If thy conscience is pure, if thou are not guilty in anything towards the great Tsar, come to me, fear no one.

Putin now has more power than either the tsar or the general secretary of the Communist party ever had, Ryzhkov says.

The tsar, it is stated, has proclaimed Russia's "inflexible resolve to support the interests of her Slav brothers" .

The tsar was just a paper tiger.

Tsar Alexander III was on the train into Nice shortly after the line opened in the 1860s. Napoleon III of France followed.

He forded frozen Russian rivers, the ice giving way beneath him, to become the first Jew to meet Tsar Nicholas I.

While according to another respect, this kind of blind credit to tsar weakens the strengths of peasant movement to a great extent.

During the First World War the history of the city is closely related to the name of Tsar Nicolas II.

Charles quickly disposed of Denmark and turned his attention towards Tsar Peter and his ally Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

in the evening dolgorukov came back , went straight to the tsar and remained a long while alone with him.

The tsar used to separate and occupy a vast territory of northeast and northwest China.

This month the White House appointed a carp tsar to oversee the campaign.

Inevitably, this led to confrontation with Kadyrov, Chechnya's thuggish tsar.

During a tsar-like televised phone-in with his people in October, Mr Putin made a little-noticed but revealing remark.

The recent efforts of President Barack Obama's pay tsar, Kenneth Feinberg, have provoked a fair amount of consternation.

The crowd made another rush back, away from the drawing-room door at which the Tsar appeared in conversation with the hostess.

President Barack Obama recently created the post of "cyber tsar" to combat threats to government and private computer networks.

American officials, including a former drug tsar , have publicly worried about having a "narco state" as their neighbour.

Vladimir Putin has been making all the right moves towards becoming the new Tsar of the new Russian Empire.

The biggest human-made bang of all time was the explosion in October 1961 of the Tsar Bomba hydrogen bomb.

The Tsar glanced with a smile down the ballroom.

The Tsar concentrated his efforts on his primary objective, access to the Baltic.

The Tsar tank was Russian built with two wheels 27 feet in diameter that pulled a much smaller set of wheels behind.

Tsar Alexey Mihailovich's portrait. He's depicted sitting in a majestic posture, his clothes shine with gold and jewelry.

Cancer tsar Sir Mike Richards said: "It is vital that cancer patients get treated quickly so they have the best chance of surviving. "

The primary development of the breed took place at the military stud farm in Rostov in the years following the fall of the Tsar.

The writer is the author of 'Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar'.

At 11, he dazzled the Russian tsar, Alexander I, with his own piano music.

But no. The latest newcomer, unless one has been added since you started this paragraph, is President George Bush's war tsar.

The Tsar, meanwhile, was displaying his grit and determination in different ways.

There were others who dreamed for Poland , Manya knew, and plotted to throw bombs at the Tsar.

A haemophilia tsar cannot be far away.

in the ballroom , guests stood crowding about the entry in expectation of the tsar.

France's chastened bankers agreed this week to also accept a "pay tsar" to monitor bonuses.

In St. -Petersburg a yacht named Queen Victoria was solemnly presented in the autumn of 1846 to Russian tsar, a gift from Victoria.

Oliver also offered his services to help the government appoint a food tsar.

Napoleon receives a representative from the Tsar , who has come with peace terms.

He is now "poverty tsar" in David Cameron's government.

No one, however, could outdo the sparrow tsar, or so you might think.

July 31 next year, the Qing government tsar Niwa area named " Dari mud" (meaning Petersburg from the "remote" areas).

There were others who dreamed for Poland and plotted to throw bombs at the Tsar.

Win the Caucasus for the Russian tsar, gain fame and wealth and titles?

The model of bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (TSAR) is analyzed in wave-number domain.

Mr Obama has also appointed an AIDS "tsar" and says he is working to develop a national AIDS strategy.

The Circassians descend from a Caucasus nation obliterated by Russia's tsar in the mid-19th century, losing around half its 2m population.

The gem was named " Alexandrite " after the young Tsarevitch, who was crowned Tsar Alexander II in 1855.

Which I didn't realise your paternal side your grandfather actually was in the military during the Tsar.

Women don't wanna see need. They want a take-charge guy - a colonel, a kaiser, a tsar.

"I have a handmade coat and hat for the tsar's wife, and I wish entry, please, " Josef said.

Visitors came from far and wide, and included a future tsar of Russia.

And so Josef placed the coat and hat in a large clean cloth, mounted his horse, and rode many miles to the tsar's palace.

The Tsar was with the first army, but not in the capacity of commander-in-chief.

In the words of Cass Sunstein, Mr Obama's regulatory tsar, the rule came at an "economically challenging time" .

Household troops of the Tsar, these are formidable, well armoured elite Eastern European heavy cavalry.

October 30, 1905, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.

He told about the intrigues of the Tsar's government.

Why is a drug tsar so universally necessary?

The UN's bird flu tsar, David Nabarro, is a diplomat.

In fact, tsar-creation has never even faltered.

The Bolsheviks used a red flag as their symbol when they overthrew the tsar in 1917.

In June he appointed a Great Lakes tsar, Cameron Davis, to begin work in July.

Composed in December 1833, it began with the words God, save the Tsar.

Occasionally the Tsar himself would address the people from a platform on the square, named Lobnoye Mesto.

Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia, was born the third son of Tsar Paul I.

At the same time the Tsar had his entire army ready and at their posts well before dawn.

He is a tsar in indifference.

The Winter Palace in St Petersburg was a house for the Tsar of Russia.

As a result, the arms made in Tula were once considered as a standard by the Tsar.

By mid-century, Russia had for years been in the stultifying grip of Tsar Nicholas I's harsh orthodoxy.

Grot was married to Iakov Karlovich, a tutor to the future Tsar Nicholas II.

For example, the nationality of the new president will have a direct bearing on who becomes foreign policy tsar.

But you must know that whoever gives the tsar a gift will be granted one wish, and I want one-third of whatever the tsar gives you.

In January of 1905, 80, 000 strikers gathered and marched on the Tsar's Winter Palace in order to deliver a petition.

The Last of China's Literati: The Music, Poetry, and Life of Tsar Teh-yun. By Bell Yung. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.

the tsar , meeting him on two occasions , did not deign to bestow a single word upon him

Tsar Peter's desires to make Russia a great European power to rival the style of Bourbon France;

but i he stopped , by the authority intrusted me by my tsar and my country , give the order to retire

but i he stopped , by the authority intrusted me by my tsar and my country , give the order to retire

Monks who were suppressed by the Tsar's navy a century ago are still regarded as subversive

TSAR Time Sharing Activating Report system

Summer Palace of Tsar Peter the Great

Tsar Nicholas granted the first Duma to the people