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  • noun one who supports a tsar
  • adjective expressing support for a tsar
  • adjective from the time of the tsar in Russia
  • adjective autocratic

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  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a czar

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Examples

  • As it emits colors on green and red, which is old Russia's principal color, it is also called tsarist Russia's national gemstone. discount links of london necklace The stone is a top quality gem and is found mostly in antique Russian ornaments.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Ballet Imperial, a plotless work set to Tchaikovsky's second piano concerto, is Balanchine's homage to the tsarist Mariinsky heritage.

    Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill – review 2011

  • The last most publicised case was in tsarist Russia in 1911-13 when Menahem Mendel Beilis, a foreman in a brickyard and a non-practising Jew, was charged with the murder of a 13-year-old boy, Andrei Yushchinsky.

    Letters: The Beilis blood libel 2011

  • Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil

    A Conversation with Tom Bissell 2010

  • The crown and the double eagle are very reminiscent of the state emblem of tsarist Russia.

    Blackwater -- The Home Game (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Like the old tsarist version, the new Russian empire relies on the strong ties of the Russian Slavic identity, an ethnic group that accounts for roughly four fifths of its 140 million people.

    The New World Order 2010

  • In this sense, Jones resembles the Ku Klux Klan or the Black Hundreds in tsarist Russia -- as do the Muslim radicals.

    Stephen Schwartz: Is America A Nation Of Book Burners? Stephen Schwartz 2011

  • As a result of tsarist policies, Crews maintains, "Muslim men and women came to imagine the imperial state as a potential instrument of God's will," and engaged with it to renegotiate their own relationship with Islam as loyal subjects of the tsar.

    Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010

  • How else account, in the aftermath of a successful revolution intended to overthrow and then efface all traces of the hated legacy of tsarist rule, for finding ourselves with a leader who in every significant respect takes the tsars, especially Ivan, as his model, even to the extent of reinstating the law providing punishment for failure to denounce.

    In the Jaws of Kronos, scene 4 2010

  • As a result of tsarist policies, Crews maintains, "Muslim men and women came to imagine the imperial state as a potential instrument of God's will," and engaged with it to renegotiate their own relationship with Islam as loyal subjects of the tsar.

    Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010

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