Putin Tsar or Doge?

The Tsar himself had taken notice...

In Bulgaria, Simeon took the title of tsar in 913.

Meanwhile, unrest grew in Russia, as the Tsar remained at the front.

In fact, Medvedev will be Russia s most malleable leader since Tsar Nicholas II.

In Finland tsar was officially called as suuriruhtinas after the Grand Principality of Finland.

Putin wants to finish the job, and much works in his favor. Heis the tsar.

The Great Synod of Moscow in 1666 1667 was also presided over by the Tsar.

Hand over the box says you, like you was the tsar of Russia or somebody.

Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.

Petar I () (died 30 January 970) was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.

He was one of the three designated bomb throwers in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II on .

He became known as The Peasants Tsar, though he didn t tolerate any opposition thinking contrary to his own.

Across Russia, celebrations have commenced honoring the 200th anniversary of Tsar Alexander I's defeat of France's Napoleon Bonaparte.

Anxious that European powers would occupy the area, Tsar Catherine II ordered to explore and map the area.

A peasant rebellion, one of the few successful such in history, established the swineherd Ivaylo as a Tsar.

Magnus defected from Ivan IV during the same year, having started to appropriate castles without consulting the Tsar.

In 1654, Khmelnytsky signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav, forming a military and political alliance with Russia that acknowledged loyalty to the tsar.

The Industrial Revolution, which began to exert a significant influence in Russia, was meanwhile creating forces that would finally overthrow the tsar.

But whether Putin is master of this system or its prisoner a tsar or a doge is something even he may not know.

With audiences turning against the Tsar, film producers began turning out, after the February Revolution, a number of films with anti Tsarist themes.

A new law provided that the tsar would choose his own successor, but Peter failed to do so before his death in 1725.

The Tsar Alexander I confirmed the new Finnish constitution (which was essentially the Swedish constitution from 1772), and made Finland an autonomous Grand Duchy.

Hostility toward the Kaiser and the desire to defend their land and their lives did not necessarily translate into enthusiasm for the Tsar or the government.

They insisted that the Prince could not be a Russian, but in a compromise Prince Alexander of Battenberg, a nephew of Tsar Alexander II, was chosen.

Not Napoleon, not Tsar Nicholas I, not even Hitler when he was being appeased in the 1930 s, could force Britain to compromise on its commitment to intellectual freedom.

The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for centuries. Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.

They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the legacy of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new reign.

In January 1905, an incident known as Bloody Sunday occurred when Father Gapon led an enormous crowd to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the tsar.

It has been known that he had been in contact with the Tsar and had requested that a small region on the banks of the Irtysh River would be granted as his dominion.

He was the first tsar to import foreign teachers on a large scale, the first to send young Russians abroad to be educated, and the first to allow Lutheran churches to be built in Russia.

He first travelled to Moscow as an agent for the Russia Company, and later acted as an envoy of Tsar Ivan to Queen Elizabeth and then from the English court under Queen Elizabeth to Ivan.

After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, the locations of the bodies of the Tsar, Tsarina, and all five of their children were revealed and multiple laboratories in different countries confirmed their identity through DNA testing.

Tsar Nicholas himself made some home movies and appointed an official Court Cinematographer, although he is purported to have written in 1913 that film was an empty matter...even something harmful...silliness...we should not attribute any significance to such trifles .

Tsar Alexander found Russia in an economic bind as his country had little in the way of manufacturing and being rich in raw materials yet being part of Napoleon s continental system denied it the trade that was its lifeblood for both money and manufactured goods.

As part of the reform, on January 1, 1874 , the statute about conscription was approved by tsar by which the military service was made compulsory to all males of age 20 and the term was reduced for land army to 6 years plus 9 years in reserve.

Theodore Roosevelt, as some may know, won the Nobel Peace Prize because he was, together with the Tsar of Russia, an initiator of the first disarmament negotiations modern Europe knew. That was on naval power, naval power being considered the biggest threat to peace at the time.

In 1908 Ferdinand used the struggles between the Great Powers to declare Bulgaria a fully independent kingdom, with himself as Tsar, which he did on 5 October (though celebrated on 22 September, as Bulgaria remained officially on the Julian calendar until 1916) in the Holy Forty Martyrs Church, Veliko Tarnovo.

Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria (28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver ( Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier ), son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I.

In 1486, Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) conquered the city of Kazan which had been under the rule of Moslem Tatars, and in remembrance of this, he decreed that from henceforth the Islamic crescent be placed at the bottom of the Crosses to signify the victory of the Cross (Christianity) over the Crescent (Islam).

However, while each tsar at the time of his coronation did agree to uphold the special status of the local laws in Finland, there is no evidence that they understood their position as one of a constitutional monarch, despite the growing prevalence of such an interpretation in Finland in the latter part of the 19th century.