tsaricide

plural tsaricides · alternative czaricide

1. countableuncountableThe killing of a tsar.

   It had been those wishing to unleash a revolution “sooner,” so said the count, who had come to advocate tsaricide.

   2009, Claudia Verhoeven, “From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism”, in The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 20

2. countableOne who kills a tsar.

   [U]pon execution of his crime, the tsaricide was to poison himself, leaving behind only an explanatory proclamation.

   2009, Claudia Verhoeven, “From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism”, in The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 21

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   It would be manifestly unjust, I think, to extradite a Tsaricide upon the ground that he is not a political offender, and then allow his own government to try him by court-martial and hang him solely upon the ground that he is a political offender.

   1893 May, George Kennan, “The Russian Extradition Treaty”, in The Forum, volume XV, New York, N.Y.: Forum Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294

   Thus, Boris Godunov suffered from a “miraculous” conflation of two incompitable myths: that he was a tsaricide, and that the real Dmitry still lived.

   2006, Chester Dunning with Lidiia Lotman and Antony Wood, “Notes to Pushkin’s Comedy”, in The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin’s Original Comedy […] (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 468

   In fact, Katkov had begun singing this conspiracy theory tune immediately following Karakozov’s attempt, when it was rumored that the would-be tsaricide was a “foreigner” […]

   2017, Lynn Ellen Patyk, “Notes”, in Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861–1881, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, part 2, chapter 2, note 18, page 283