tsarevichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 1892, [Petr] Polevoi, translated by R[obert] Nisbet Bain, Russian Fairy Tales, London: Lawrence and Bullen, […], pages 95–96:
text: 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.
ref: 1969, Maria-Gabriele Wosien, The Russian Folk-Tale: Some Structural and Thematic Aspects, Sagner, →ISBN, page 201:
text: […] tsarevichs and bandit leaders who were to lead the people to a land flowing with milk and honey.
ref: 1973, The Economist, volume 247, page 116:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.”
ref: 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:
text: 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];[…]”
ref: 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:
text: Much has been written over the years identifying some of the Easter eggs as having belonged to the Tsarevichs. But the authors have found no archival evidence to support these claims and believe that there were never any Easter eggs presented by either Tsars Alexander III or Nicholas II to their sons and heirs.
ref: 1997, Tatiana Fabergé, Lynette G. Proler, Valentin V. Skurlov, The Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, Christie’s, →ISBN, page 44:
text: But disregarding the tsars and tsarevichs of Kasimov there were no Chingisids in Russian service before the 1550s.
ref: 2001, István Vásáry, editor, Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries, Routledge, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: His education was less formal than usual for Tsarevichs—after all, he was third in succession behind his half-brothers Fedor and Ivan—but it was still better than that of the average nobleman.
ref: 2003, Arthur L. George, Elena George, St. Petersburg: Russia’s Window to the Future—The First Three Centuries, Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:
text: V. V. Vel’aminov-Zernov, Izsledovanie o Kasimovskikh tsariakh i tsarevichakh (Research of the Tsars and Tsarevichs of Kasimov), vol. 1 (St. Petersburg: Academy of Sciences Press, 1863), pp. 15, 26–27.
ref: 2003, Ilya V. Gaiduk, The Great Confrontation: Europe and Islam Through the Centuries, Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, →ISBN, page 231:
text: Grand duchesses and tsarevichs have appeared all over the world.
ref: 2004, Steve Berry, The Romanov Prophecy, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: At least four would-be tsarevichs did turn up – one in Siberia, one in Baghdad and a third as a Polish Colonel Goleniewski who defected to the United States in 1964, looking young for his age.
ref: 2008, Oliver Thomson, Romanovs: Europe’s Most Obsessive Dynasty, The History Press, →ISBN:
text: The older tsarevichs in the Romanov family often received gifts from foreign visitors, particularly those coming from the Ottoman Empire.
ref: 2009, The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: plural of tsarevich