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—a 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)—but was usually considered by western Europeans to be equivalent to king, or to be somewhat in ...more

Tsars Books

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra

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Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan

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The Passion of Marie Romanov by Laura Rose

Best Russian Historical Fiction

91 books — 39 voters

Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior by Mark Galeotti

King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther by Natalia Nowakowska

Between Lipany and White Mountain by James R. Palmitessa

Early Modern Eastern Europe

24 books — 6 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

The Children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

Of Kings and Queens

453 books — 198 voters

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

Royal Fiction

533 books — 228 voters

Fiction featuring the Romanov Family

77 books — 111 voters

Anastasia and Her Sisters by Carolyn Meyer

Romanovs in YA & Middle Grade Fiction

22 books — 20 voters

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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. ”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

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“ All around me is cowardice and deceit. ”
― Tsar Nicholas II

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