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Just one year later the flamboyant internet tsar was out of his post, swept up in Xi’s wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign.

It is a separate state within Russia… And in this state there is a single, irreplaceable tsar.

He hosted him in the one-time office of Tsar Nicholas II that overlooks a tropical garden and the Black Sea.

The Russian revolution of 1917 toppled the tsar and soon installed a bloodthirsty communist regime.

“He would have thought he should be treated like a tsar,” says Patton.

He killed his own son and heir by whacking him over the head with the monarchal staff in a tsar-ish fit of temper.

One headline, decades earlier, must have struck him with the force of Tsar Bomba.

Russian opera was then at a low ebb, and he only went to hear his favourite work, A Life for the Tsar.

Bute was deceived as regards the tsar's intentions, and his words were spoken in the interest of Prussia.

But to consent was one thing: the how another: the mere suspicion of the willingness of Kaiser or Tsar shook their thrones.

One was that I should form a liaison with some married lady; the other that I should become an adjutant to the Tsar.

The Tsar's own physicians attended her, but she became no better, and at last it was realised that an operation was inevitable.