Meaning of tsarevichs | Babel Free

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“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; […]”

“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.”

“[…] tsarevichs and bandit leaders who were to lead the people to a land flowing with milk and honey.”

“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.”

“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.””

“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];[…]””

“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.”

“But disregarding the tsars and tsarevichs of Kasimov there were no Chingisids in Russian service before the 1550s.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Grand duchesses and tsarevichs have appeared all over the world.”

“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.”

“The older tsarevichs in the Romanov family often received gifts from foreign visitors, particularly those coming from the Ottoman Empire.”

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