Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Grigori Rasputin - LIES - Russian History - Extra History" video.

  1. Everyone called them tsar though. And empress, tsarina, children, tsarevich and tsarevna etc... My grandma talking of her ancestors said they lived "pri tsare", "during tsar", I literally didn't hear the word emperor used for then-dictators of mordor before I seen Western sources. Everybody in ex-USSR always just said "tsar." And no, tsar isn't same level of kaiser/ceasar despite being a translation of one. It's exactly how king is sometimes translated into russian. Polish king = Polski tsar. Specifically, official title of russian emperor ALSO listed him as tsar/king of several countries, so tsar IS a junior title to emperor and indeed, Nicholas WAS a tsar, that title was listed multiple times, in fact. Wiki copy-paste: "Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссійскій, Московскій, Кіевскій, Владимірскій, Новгородскій; Царь Казанскій, Царь Астраханскій, Царь Польскій, Царь Сибирскій, Царь Херсониса Таврическаго, Царь Грузинскій; Государь Псковскій и Великій Князь..." "Emperor and Autocrat of all russia, muscovy, Kyiv, Volodymyr, Novgorod, TSAR of Kazan, TSAR of Astrakhan, TSAR of Poland, TSAR of Sibera, TSAR of Chersonesos of Tavria, TSAR of Georgia, Sovereign of Pskov and Great Prince of..." Then go the lesser, regional titles. Just elaborating that emperor held titles of being a tsar of several tsardoms. Etymologically, tsar is close to kaiser but russia tried to westernize yeah, so they used emperor/imperator as higher title in official documents instead and tsar for lesser ones, think how Wang in China is King/Prince, but Di is Emperor.
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  2. Oh and Eastern equivalent of Emperor is Khagan aka "supreme khan", actually, some rulers took it in Kievan Rus' during Dark Ages (way before moscow was built), but it didn't really last... What's translated as "prince" or "duke" in English is "knyaz", which is equivalent of the viking title of konung (as in, prince Volodymyr would be konung Waldamarr in Norse sagas). Principality = knyazhestvo, knyaz-dom, lol. But those titles aren't related to modern russia, Rus' is geographically closer to modern day states of Ukraine and Belarus. The russian state emerged when Ivan III and IV, the Terrible, took titles of Tsar, transforming muscovy from a principality into a tsardom, and the westernization came a few centuries later with Peter the I'st reforms. They weren't really popular so people kept using the titles from moscow tsardom era vernacularly. Hell, Peter the Great isn't even known by that name as much as Peter the first, "Petr pervy". Even later, white russians would pray for return of the "Tsar-batyushka", the "king-daddy" (yes), not "emperor"... It just never caught on. Overall the whole episode and his explanation here was absolutely amazing, I was very surprised at the research they did because russian history is very muddled (several tsars literally ordered archives to get a little Alexandria library style fire) and it's hard to tell what was myth vs real events. It's VERY RARE for western historians to not fall into the trap of russian revisionism and propaganda. I hope they do Ivan the Terrible because he's being horribly romanticized in russia nowadays with putin giving orders to rehabilitate several convicted criminals linked to him. Seriously. Oh and there's secret police tradition that goes way back they touched the middle part of the Oprichniki-ohrana-KGB-FSB chain. tl;dr: Real good job on everything and yes, people "correcting" tsar to emperor aren't entirely correct because titles on paper are one thing and how the emperors were called in real life is another.
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