After the fall of the Jewish kingdom of Khazaria, they continued to arrive, fleeing from the Russian boyars of Kiev who after several centuries of vassalage to the Jewish kings had finally risen in revolt and conquered them. In time, these Khazar Jews blended with the other Jewish elements ...
Before 1547 the previous rulers had been kings and queens this changed with Ivan IV the Terrible. At age sixteen, Ivan IV was crowned king in 1547. Instead of just taking the title grand prince, however, he took the titles grand prince and tzar. Tzar is from the Latin 210 Words 1 ...
Even though this phrase was not coined until the 1700s, this period can be effectively considered the foundation of the Russian Empire. Ivan III was a cunning leader who made sure that other, weaker kings in the area recognized his authority and strengthened the state from within. By the lat...
Trading away the very basic liberties and freedoms that make humans human don’t actually get you more security. It gets you totalitarianism. When you get totalitarianism, you get WORSE fear/insecurity from the totalitarian rulers than you ever did from terrorists. Give me a terrorist in a free...
male dynasts. Maria Vladimiovna’s mother Princess Leonida of Bagration belonged to a family that had been kings in Georgia from medieval times until the early 19th century. However, no male line ancestor of Leonida had reigned as a king in Georgia since 1505 and her branch of the Bagratio...
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Kings 15:11-12) King Asa destroying the idols ...
The problem seems to be that in modern times a brother of the Tsar was always a Velikii Knyaz, великийкнязь, and this was translated "Grand Duke" by analogy to the tradition of giving the title Duke to the brothers of the Kings of England and France. Merely calling them...
A very different style prevails in the episodes dealing with the coming of theVarangiansand the history of the Varangian rulers in pre-Christian Rus. Told in the form of short, pointed independent anecdotes, often culminating in dramatic dialogues, these episodes reflect an oral epic tradition, a...
Tsar, title associated primarily with rulers of Russia. The term tsar, a form of the ancient Roman imperial title caesar, generated a series of derivatives in Russian: tsaritsa, a tsar’s wife, or tsarina; tsarevich, his son; tsarevna, his daughter; and