Get to know Tsarina better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like czarina or tzarina.
Tsarina in a sentence
Tsarina meaning
An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.
Using Tsarina
- The main meaning on this page is: An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.
- Useful related words include: czarina, tzarina, czaritza, tsaritsa.
- In the example corpus, tsarina often appears in combinations such as: the tsarina, tsarina had, as tsarina.
Context around Tsarina
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tsarina
- In this selection, "tsarina" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, law, overthrow, though, alexandra and elisabeth stand out and add context to how "tsarina" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alexandra as tsarina though it and and became tsarina. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tsarina" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tsarina
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Alexandra: The Last Russian Tsarina. (5 words)
These women were constantly ignored by the "haughty" tsarina. (9 words)
According to Shelley he was taught handwriting by the Tsarina. (10 words)
Historian Barbara W. Tuchman in The Guns of August writes of Alexandra as tsarina, "Though it could hardly be said that the Czar governed Russia in a working sense, he ruled as an autocrat and was in turn ruled by his strong-willed if weak-witted wife. (47 words)
The coalition against Frederick was suddenly weakened when the St. Petersburg court discovered a plot to overthrow Tsarina Elisabeth and bring back the child Ivan VI as Tsar, with his mother Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna serving as regent for the child. (41 words)
Anonymous caricature in 1916 Purishkevich, a buffoon character, stated that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina had made him a threat to the empire: "an illiterate moujik shall govern Russia no longer!" citation "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win". (40 words)
Example sentences (17)
Alexandra: The Last Russian Tsarina.
According to Shelley he was taught handwriting by the Tsarina.
Anonymous caricature in 1916 Purishkevich, a buffoon character, stated that Rasputin's influence over the Tsarina had made him a threat to the empire: "an illiterate moujik shall govern Russia no longer!" citation "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win".
A third division may have contained the dwellings of the tsarina.
He was heir apparent to the throne of Russia, and Alexandra had fulfilled her most important role as tsarina by bearing a male child.
Historian Barbara W. Tuchman in The Guns of August writes of Alexandra as tsarina, "Though it could hardly be said that the Czar governed Russia in a working sense, he ruled as an autocrat and was in turn ruled by his strong-willed if weak-witted wife.
It was used by the Russian royal family and court during regular visits to the Tsarina's ducal brother and family in Darmstadt.
Nevertheless, despite her social tact, she did not get along well with her daughter-in-law, Tsarina Alexandra, holding her responsible for many of the woes that beset her son Nicholas and the Russian Empire in general.
On 19 August 1915, after an unsuccessful attempt to discredit Rasputin and the Tsarina in a newspaper, Prince Vladimir Orlov and Vladimir Dzhunkovsky were discharged from their posts.
Rasputin's personal influence over the Tsarina had become so great that it was he who ordered the destinies of Imperial Russia, while she compelled her weak husband to fulfill them.
The coalition against Frederick was suddenly weakened when the St. Petersburg court discovered a plot to overthrow Tsarina Elisabeth and bring back the child Ivan VI as Tsar, with his mother Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna serving as regent for the child.
The doctors could not supply a cure, and the desperate Tsarina invited Rasputin.
These women were constantly ignored by the "haughty" tsarina.
The tsar and tsarina were not the only ones opposed to the match; Queen Victoria wrote to Alix's sister Victoria of her suspicions (which were correct) that Sergei and Elizabeth were encouraging the match.
The Tsarina refused to meet the two, but said they could explain to her what had happened in a letter.
Unlike other European courts of the day, in the Russian court, the position of Dowager Empress was senior in rank and precedence to that of the tsarina—a rule that Maria, with the support of Nicholas II, enforced strictly.
Upon their wedding, Catherine took the style of her husband and became Tsarina.
Common combinations with tsarina
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tsarina 7×
- tsarina had 2×
- as tsarina 2×