Can someone explain Russian royalty terms eg. Tsarina?

Question

I will need to know what a Tsar, Tsarevich and Tsarina are, and is there a Russian equivelant of a Princess, Duke or Duchess?

Answer 1

The Tsar is King, Tsarina, Queen, Tsarevich, heir to the throne.  The children of a Tsar are called Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses, not Prince or Princesses.  A prince or princess would be all other royalty who were the sons and daughters of a Grand Duke/Duchess.  For example, Tsar Nicholas's children were the Tsaravich, as he only had one son, and Grand Duchess, and his siblings were Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, but his siblings children were Prince and Princess.

Answer 2

Tsar occasionally spelled Czar or Tzar and sometimes Csar or Zar in English, is a Slavonic term designating certain monarchs.

Originally, and indeed during most of its history, the title tsar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, i.e., a ruler who has the same rank as a Roman or Byzantine emperor (or, according to Byzantine ideology, the most elevated position next to the one held by the Byzantine monarch) due to recognition by another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch). Occasionally, the word could be used to designate other, non-Christian supreme rulers. In Russia and Bulgaria, the imperial connotations of the term were blurred with time and by the 19th century it had come to be viewed as an equivalent of king.

The modern languages of these countries use it as a general term for a monarch. "Tsar" was the official title of the supreme ruler in Russia from about 1547 until 1721 (after 1721 and until 1917, the title was used officially only in reference to the Russian emperor's sovereignty over certain formerly independent states such as Poland and Georgia).

Titles in the Russian Royal/Imperial family

Tsaritsa is the term used for an Empress, though in English contexts this seems invariably to be altered to tsarina (since 1717, from Italian czarina, from German Zarin). In Imperial Russia, the official title was Empress

Tsaritsa (Empress) could be either the ruler herself or the wife (Empress consort) of the tsar. The title of tsaritsa is used in the same way in Bulgaria and Serbia.

Tsesarevich (literally, "son of the tsar") is the term for a male heir apparent, the full title was Heir Tsesarevich ("Naslednik Tsesarevich", informally abbreviated in Russia to The Heir ("Naslednik") (from the capital letter).

Tsarevich was the term for a son. In older times the term was used in place of "Tsesarevich". A son who was not a heir was formally called Velikii Kniaz (Grand Duke or Grand Prince). The latter title was also used for grandsons (through male lines).

Tsarevna was the term for a daughter and a granddaughter of a Tsar or Tsaritsa. The official title was Velikaya Kniaginya, translated as Grand Duchess or Grand Princess.

Tsesarevna was the wife of the Tsesarevich.

Answer 3

it comes from the Roman/Latin Cesar as in Julius

Answer 4

I think this is Czarina.. Russian kings were called Czars and Queens as Czarina

Answer 5

Tsar/Emperor

Tsarina/Empress

Tsarevich/Crown Prince

Grand Duchess/Princess

Answer 6

Tsar is the Russian word for "Cesar" which, although a man's name, is also the Latin word for "emperor."   So, when the Russian ear hears "Tsar Nicholas" they are understanding "Emperor  Nicolas."

"Tsarina" is the feminine form of "Tsar" and translates as "Empress."

"Tsarevich" is what is known as a patronym, a middle name that all Russians have, based on their father's first name.  It means "..son of."  In this case, it is a slight exception, in that it means "...son of the Tsar."

Russian Royalty created a very multibranched family tree, and so there were corresponding princesses, counts, dukes, etc.