tsardom

A similar problem came up yesterday in reading a Boris Akunin story called Strast' i dolg Passion and duty, set in an alternate Russia which has revived tsardom, along with its Table of Ranks and all the rest of the imperial paraphernalia.

languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS. 2004

Potemkin was a monster to be remembered among the many who ill-served the tsardom through the centuries.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Potemkin was a monster to be remembered among the many who ill-served the tsardom through the centuries.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

In one sense this is the equivalent in literature of the tradition of kingship or of tsardom in the national politics: the icon of the country's special version of sovereignty.

Pushkin's Shakespearean Lover Bayley, John 2000

How the backward, Oriental tsardom of Muscovy has been transformed into the huge empire of Russia, now comprising one-sixth of the land surface and one-twelfth of the population of the earth, is one of the most fascinating phases of the history of modern times.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

Scandinavian kingdoms, the tsardom of Muscovy, the feudal kingdoms of

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

Southwest of the tsardom of Muscovy and east of the Holy Roman Empire was the kingdom of Poland, to which Lithuanians as well as Poles owed allegiance.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

She was a famous housewife, ruling her little tsardom magnificently; she knew the ways, the vices and the virtues of mankind as they are set out in the Ten Commandments and the

The Precipice Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov 1851

Every sector of modern public life, it seems, yearns for tsardom.

BBC Blog Network 2009

But, on first sight, it was suspiciously short of tsardom.

BBC Blog Network 2009