9 sentences with 'tsar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tsar and other words derived from it.
• « The period between the rulers ended when an assembly of nobles elected the first member of the Romanov family to hold the title of tsar in 1613 - Michael I - but the tsars remained weak and were plagued by both resistance from the nobles and huge peasant uprisings for many decades. »
• « A huge peasant uprising, led by a man claiming to be the "real" tsar, threatened to crush the forces of the real tsar before he was defeated in 1670. »
• « Until then, so little was known about Russia in the West that Louis XIV once sent a letter to a tsar who had been dead for twelve years. »
• « When the new tsar, Nikolai I, was crowned in December 1825, the officers staged a rebellion in the square in front of the royal palace in St. Petersburg, hoping that the army as a whole would side with them and force the tsar to accept the reforms. Instead, after a tense day of waiting, troops loyal to the tsar opened fire and crushed the uprising. »
• « In turn, Tsar Alexander I sincerely believed that he had a mission from God to maintain the sacred order of monarchy, nobility and clergy. In this, he was influenced by time: he became tsar shortly after Napoleon seized power in France. »
• « After the Russian defeat, 100,000 workers tried to petition the tsar for better wages, better food prices and an end to official censorship. Troops fired on the crowd, which was unarmed, triggering a wave of strikes across the country. »
• « Still, some things changed thanks to the revolution: trade unions were legalised and the tsar could no longer completely dismiss the Duma (Russian representative assembly). Most importantly, the state could no longer effectively censor the press. As a result, there was an explosion of anger as various forms of anti-government press spread throughout the country. »
• « Within days, demands had grown to end the war altogether and even called for the removal of the tsar himself, and a general strike was called. Comparable demonstrations broke out in the other major cities within a short time. »