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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鈥攁 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)鈥攂ut was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in
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Their destiny 鈥� hers, his, that of every descendant from the Cave 鈥� would be the same as the thistle the image of which obsessed Tolstoy, the same stubborn thistle he sought out in the Caucasian mountains. He was travelling in a scrap metal car along the muddy track to Shatoi and caught a glimpse, beneath them, of tanks and vehicles incinerated in an ambush similar to the one set for the Tsar鈥檚 soldiers a century and a half earlier. He witnessed once more history鈥檚 stupid repetitions, its obtuse
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― Blind Rider
― Blind Rider
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One day when I was ten one of out neighbors came to the house and said that the tsar was dead and when I asked what ir meant they said that there would be a new tsar. So I did not really see why a tsar mattered.
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― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
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