The Fandorin novels, a glamorous romp through tsarist Russia, have been best-sellers since the 1990s.
Tsarist Russia looked secure after the shock of 1905, but then fell to the Bolsheviks in 1917.
From tsarist times, living in Moscow has been a privilege rather than a right, even for Russians.
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However the Tsarist government continued to exist even after the Tsar was gone.
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Even more than the Soviet monolith, the tsarist realm varied greatly in form.
She was born Mona May Ratner in Bessarabia, a province of Tsarist Russia, part of which is now in Ukraine.
Who cares that Norway was once part of Sweden, or that Finland used to be a Grand Duchy of tsarist Russia?
Natalie Konstantinovna Mark was born in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a part of the tsarist empire that was close to the tastes of Western Europe.
Like many Jews tired of tsarist persecution he pulled up roots and came to New York to join a community that has probably done most to provide America with its culture.
Creditors have been more patient with democratic governments than with other regimes, probably because the risk of abrupt changes of policy (like the repudiation of Tsarist debts by Russia in 1917) are reduced.
But having read her wonderful evocation of Jewish Vitebsk, tsarist St Petersburg and modernist Paris, having lived as in a novel with the Hasidic families of Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld, his first wife, the reader will be hooked.
John Erickson makes something of the comparison between the great tsarist offensive in 1916 under Brusilov and Zhukov's operation in 1944 to clear the Germans from Belarus, showing in the process that the armies of both wars were not the primitive, poorly led, forces often depicted in western literature.
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