tsarevichs

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A form of tsarevich — A son of a tsar, a prince in Russia or Bulgaria.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of tsarevich

    […] tsarevichs and bandit leaders who were to lead the people to a land flowing with milk and honey.

    1973, The Economist, volume 247, page 116
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    No sooner did the three Tsarevichs hear this, when with one voice they thus implored their father the Tsar: “Dear father Tsar! give us thy blessing, and send us to the four corners of the earth, that we may see people and show ourselves and discover the Tsarevna Loveliness-Inexhaustible.” […] The Tsarevichs went on and on, all that day and the next and a whole week, and they came to such a wilderness that they could see neither earth nor sky, nor any living being, nor any habitation; […]

    1892, [Petr] Polevoi, translated by R[obert] Nisbet Bain, Russian Fairy Tales, London: Lawrence and Bullen, […], pages 95–96

    After neither a long nor a short time, the king married his two elder daughters to two splendid tsarevichs, and for this occasion he arranged a great feast.

    1969, Maria-Gabriele Wosien, The Russian Folk-Tale: Some Structural and Thematic Aspects, Sagner, →ISBN, page 201

    Yet before very long many self-proclaimed Romanovs had come forward, each declaring that he or she had escaped the mass slaughter; among them were a Tsar or two, several Tsarevichs, an Olga, a Tatiana and a Marie – and one whose identity has caused more debate than any other, Anastasia.

    1984, Mollie Hardwick, “Anastasia”, in John Canning, editor, Great Unsolved Mysteries, Secaucus, N.J.: Chartwell Books, Inc., →ISBN, section “Historic and Prehistoric Enigmas”, page 52

    Thus the shift of the Kasimov “tsardom” in Meshchera from the jurisdiction of the Posol’skii prikaz to the Kazan prikaz in the 1660s is considered to be the end of the autonomy of the “Kasimov tsars” (or “tsarevichs”), although their dynasty survived until 1681. […] According to Kokoshkin, the Siberian and Kasimov tsarevichs baptized into the Christian faith, although by rank and chest’ (honor) higher than the boyars, still “do not sit in the duma since they and their states were conquered after military defeat, precedents are lacking, and one may fear something from them.”

    1988, Michael Rywkin, “Russian Central Colonial Administration. From the prikaz of Kazan to the XIX Century, a Survey.”, in Michael Rywkin, editor, Russian Colonial Expansion to 1917, London; New York, N.Y.: Mansell Publishing Limited, →ISBN, pages 10–11

    And the ambassadors said to Sir Thomas and the gentlemen and the merchants: “Many children of sovereigns, Tsars and Tsarevichs of various states, serve our Great Sovereign Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich [ST];[…]”

    1994, Paul Bushkovitch, transl., edited by Maija Jansson and Nikolai Rogozhin, England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613–1614, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Philosophical Society, →ISBN, page 157
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