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  RAMBAUD ON THE THE MONGOL YOKE
If the Muscovite princes inclined to autocracy, it was not that they formed themselves on the model of the Grand Khan, but that they naturally adopted imperial ideas of absolutism imported from Constantinople.
It is always the Roman Emperor of Tzargrad, and not the leader of Asiatic shepherds, who is their typical monarch.
If from this time the Russian penal law makes more frequent use of the pain of death and corporal punishment, it is not only the result of imitation of the Tatars, but of the evergrowing influence of Byzantine laws, and the progressive triumph of their principles over those of the ancient code of Iaroslaf.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/RamTat.html   (2576 words)

  
  Wikipedia: Muscovy
Indeed, after Ivan III's marriage to Sophia Paleologue, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, the Muscovite court adopted Byzantine terms, rituals, titles, and emblems such as the double-headed eagle.
They even began to refer to the city of Constantinople as "Tzargrad", making a goal to reclaim the city for Christianity.
At first, the term autocrat connoted only the literal meaning of an independent ruler, but in the reign of Ivan IV (r.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/mu/muscovy.html   (3500 words)

  
 Princess Olga Equal-to-the-Apostles
In Constantinople, the Emperor Mikhail the III and the Patriarch Photios prayed to God and after the night service in the Vlakhern Cathedral they carried the cross to the shore of the Bosphorus bay.
A church dedicated to Nicolas the Wonderworker was built on the grave of one of those Christians.
Describing this event the chronicler mentioned that in Kiev the prince's army swore to observe the treaty; pagans vowed before the statue of Perun, while Christians vowed in the church of St. Ilias.
www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/olga_princess.htm   (804 words)

  
 ROBOGEAR.RU - Chronicle - The Newest History of the Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The most outstanding of this not numerous group is Alexey Dolgorukiy.
Dolgorukiy was born on the planet Tzargrad located on the outer border of the Empire.
For a long time, all planets of the outer border suffered from raids and attacks of the barbarians, which live beyond the Empire.
www.robogear.ru /eng/skelet/2/legend/letopisemp09.php   (551 words)

  
 Talk:Czargrad - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
Czargrad (Tzargrad, Tzarigrad) is not specifically Russian but Slavic name for Constantinople and most probably dates from the times the name Constantinople was given to the city as the eastern capital of the Roman Empire.
Gradually it has became a centre of the Eastern Orthodox christianity and church.
With the christianization of the Slavic peoples the name Tzargrad has spread and became a common designator of the centre of the Eastern Christian hemisphere.
www.indopedia.org /Talk:Czargrad.html   (202 words)

  
 The Englishwoman in Russia (1855)
We are told that, in their voyages thither, they descended the Dnieper; that, on coming to rocks, they lightened the weight of their ships by discharging the cargoes, and carrying them on men's shoulders along tbe shores; they re-embarked when the danger was passed.
On reaching the mouth of the Dnieper, they waited for a fair wind, and then coasted along the western shores of the Black Sea, until they came to the Greek capital, which, in their language, was designated Tzargrad, or the City of the Caesars.
Oleg, the guardian of Rurick' s son, is said to have made a successful attack on Constantinople, and committed fearful ravages in its vicinity.
erc.lib.umn.edu /dynaweb/readers/englworu/@Generic__BookTextView/1974   (2272 words)

  
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Then in Miney (in the daily church books of divine service) we found the life story, the biography of St. Alexander.
He got the education in Tzargrad where he entered the military service.
But after some time he retired and served only to God.
icon-rus.chat.ru /homeicon5eng.html   (860 words)

  
 Russian Women Discussion
There were many (for those time) towns with their own rulers but they could not keep their independence and suffered from forays of Varangians on the north and from Hazards om the south or just were supposed to render tribute to them.
In 864 Ruric sent his two boyars - Askold and Dir - into marsh to Tzargrad (other name Constantinople - now Stambul) - other version those two just got piss at Rurik for something and left him.
But on their road by river Dnepr they met town Kiev and decided to stop there.
www.russianwomendiscussion.com /Forum/index.php?topic=2267.0   (2424 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - View Single Post - A Second Chance For Kiev
The city had new, odd glow to it and traders were, of course, the first to take adavantage of it.
They petitioned the Prince for rights to travel to Tzargrad in search of fine goods with which to buy with honey, wax and furs.
This time there would be slaves to sell as well.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showpost.php?p=2805310&postcount=9   (316 words)

  
 VENETI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While militant monastic orders attacked Poland, Prussia and Lithuania from the west, Tatars and nomads ravaged Russian princedoms from the east.
After the collapse of the Golden Horde and the conquering of the Orthodox Constantinople (Tzargrad) by Muslim Turks there started a fight for the hegemony in the Slavic world.
From the methodological point of view the following issues of vital importance have been cleared up.
www.veneti.info /zborniki/zbornik01/htm/tulajev_veneti.htm   (1241 words)

  
 Military History Online - The Effect of Industrialization and Technology on Warfare: 1854-1878
In the opening stages of the war, public opinion, fuelled by newspapers such as The Times, accelerated and increased hostilities.
At first it was the British intent to merely stem Russia's perpetual movement towards Constantinople, which they insisted on referring to, much to the chagrin of the Ottoman Turks, as Tzargrad.
The religious and political tensions rose quickly and it was only the non-intervention of the German states in the war that prevented a first world war in 1854.[1]
www.militaryhistoryonline.com /general/articles/effectofindustrialization.aspx   (7052 words)

  
 (NYT-ARMENIANS FIGHT TURKS) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide
Russian Papers Use Slavonic Word “Tzargrad” in Speaking of it
It also says that the Russian newspapers refer to Constantinople by its old Slavonic name of Tzargrad.
“The name of Constantinople has been replaced in the Russian Press by the old Slavonic name of Tzargrad.”
www.tallarmeniantale.com /nyt-armens-fight-turks.htm   (1380 words)

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