(1) When he abdicated in 1917, Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.

(2) Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.

(3) In the reign of the Bulgarian tsar Boris I, those territories were incorporated into several komitati (units of local authority).

(4) In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.

(5) By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest.

(6) For the tsar , Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.

(7) When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789, the Holy Roman Empire still existed, France had a king, Russia had a tsar , China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.

(8) Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.

(9) Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.

(10) For 51 days, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar , Russia's absolute monarch.

(11) In 1887, Lenin's elder brother - Alexander - was arrested for plotting to kill the tsar of Russia.

(12) After the sixteenth century, the tsar 's court, the gentry, and wealthy merchants supported metalworking, jewelry, textile, and porcelain workshops.

(13) When Washington was elected President of the United States in 1789, the Holy Roman Empire still existed, France had a king, Russia had a tsar , China had an emperor and Japan had a shogun - none of which exist today.

(14) When he abdicated in 1917, Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, rather hoped he might have been allowed to live out the rest of his days in peace with his family in the Crimea.

(15) The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor, and be willing to die for him, yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.

(16) For 51 days, the Soviet of Workers' Deputies in the then Russian capital St Petersburg had been an alternative power to the tsar , Russia's absolute monarch.

(17) In the 16th century the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander who won a battle against the Byzantine army and made Perperikon a regional centre by appointing a governor.

(18) The Jews must be utterly loyal to the tsar or emperor, and be willing to die for him, yet they also must respect the judiciary as an intermediary between individuals.

(19) Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch.

(20) For the tsar , Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners.

(21) In 1887, Lenin's elder brother - Alexander - was arrested for plotting to kill the tsar of Russia.

(22) Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.

(23) By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest.

(24) In 1832, Baron Schilling, a Russian diplomat, linked the Summer Palace of the tsar in St Petersburg to the Winter Palace using a telegraph with rotating magnetized needles.

(25) At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg, once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.

(26) I can find no evidence that any of the tsars are doing this but plenty of evidence that colleagues think it a risk of tsardom .

(27) But he should have considered the possibility - if only to reject it - that tsarism could have given way not to Bolshevism but to ‘liberal democracy,’ ‘social democracy’ or ‘peasant democracy.’

(28) When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.

(29) The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.

(30) His maternal grandfather, who fled Russia to avoid conscription by the tsarist army, was a Hebrew scholar, mystic, mathematician, and inventor who made boots and shoes for a living.