Tsarist autocracy
FORM OF AUTOCRACY SPECIFIC TO GRAND DUCHY OF MOSCOW AND LATER TSARDOM OF RUSSIA AND RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Czarist; Tsarist; Tsarism; Czarism; Russian absolutism; Russian despotism; Russian autocracy; Czarist absolutism; Czarist autocracy; Tsarist absolutism; Muscovite despotism; Imperial autocracy; Muscovite autocracy; Imperial absolutism; Muscovite absolutism; Imperial despotism; Tsarist despotism; Samoderzhaviye; Tsarist Autocracy; Russian Autocracy; Autocratic Russia
Tsarist autocracy (, transcr. tsarskoye samoderzhaviye), also called Tsarism, was a form of autocracy (later absolute monarchy) specific to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor states the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire.