Tsars

5 entries with the title tsar in CrownDB, listed alphabetically with realm and reign.

The Tsar Liberator, who freed 23 million serfs in 1861, the greatest single reform in Russian history, followed by courts, local...

Ivan the Great, grand prince of Moscow who tripled its territory, refused tribute to the Horde in 1480 ending the Mongol yoke...

Crowned first Tsar of All Russia in 1547. He conquered Kazan and Astrakhan, opened Siberia, created a secret police of oprichnina...

Last Russian emperor, unprepared and unfortunate, whose reign brought defeat by Japan, the 1905 revolution, Rasputin at court and...

Two meters tall, he studied shipbuilding in Dutch yards, then built a navy and a new capital, Saint Petersburg, founded in 1703...