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  2. Tsarist autocracy - Wikipedia

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    Tsarist autocracy (Russian: царское самодержавие, romanized: tsarskoye samoderzhaviye), also called Tsarism, was an autocracy, a form of absolute monarchy localised with the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire.

  3. Tsarist bureaucracy - Wikipedia

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    In 1718 Tsar Peter the Great investigated why the ex-Swedish province of Livonia was so orderly. [3] He discovered that the Swedes had spent as much on administering Livonia (300 times smaller than his own realm) as he spent on the entire Russian bureaucracy. He was forced to dismantle the province's government.

  4. Tsarebozhiye - Wikipedia

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    Tsarebozhiye [1] (Russian: Царебожие, Tsar-as-God [2]) is a radical doctrine in the Russian Orthodox Church that believes Nicholas II is the redeemer of the sins of the Russian people, that for this reason he possessed a special nature, pure of sin, that Russia is the Kingdom of God on earth, and that his death was a collective sin of the Russian people that they must atone for ...

  5. List of Russian monarchs - Wikipedia

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    The Time of Troubles came to a close with the election of Michael Romanov as tsar in 1613. [95] Michael officially reigned as tsar, though his father, the patriarch Philaret (died 1633) initially held de facto power. However, Michael's descendants would rule Russia, first as tsars and later as emperors, until the Russian Revolution of 1917.

  6. Tsar - Wikipedia

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    Tsar and its variants were the official titles in the First Bulgarian Empire (681–1018), Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396), the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908–1946), the Serbian Empire (1346–1371), and the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721). The first ruler to adopt the title tsar was Simeon I of Bulgaria. [6]

  7. Tsardom of Russia - Wikipedia

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    As a result, False Dmitriy I entered Moscow and was crowned tsar that year, following the murder of Tsar Feodor II, Godunov's son. Subsequently, Russia entered a period of continuous chaos, known as The Time of Troubles (Смутное Время). Despite the Tsar's persecution of the boyars, the townspeople's dissatisfaction, and the gradual ...

  8. Russian Greek Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    For example, Tsar Peter the Great, whose anti-Catholicism and control over the Russian Church had already caused the martyrdom of Greek Catholic Deacon Peter Artemiev at Solovetsky Monastery on March 30, 1700, [11] was so enraged on 11 July 1705 to see icons of Eastern Catholic Starets, bishop, and martyr St. Josaphat Kuntsevych inside the ...

  9. Anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The article would be very important in anti-religious policy in the USSR in later years, and its last sentence, which would be both ignored and recalled back at different point in Soviet history, would play an important role in later rivalries in the power struggles of later years between different Soviet leaders. [50]