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{{CountryInfo
|Name            = [[File:Russian Empire-icon2.png]] Tsarist Autocracy [[File:Tsar-icon.png]]
|NativeName = {{ILSize|RussianL-icon.png|Russian Language}}: Царское Cамодержавие
|founded = 913
|predicon = AbMon
|onlypredecessor = Absolute Monarchism
|ended = 1946
|nexticon = NeoTsar
|onlysuccessor = Neo-Tsarism
|image           = Tsarism.png
|Caption         = Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality
|Alias           = {{SB}}{{i|Tsar}} Czarism<br>[[File:Tsar-icon.png]] Tsarist Autocracy<br>[[File:Imp-icon.png]]{{i|Russia}} [[Imperialism|Russian Imperialism]]<br>{{Alias|Russian Empire-icon.png|Russian Empire|[[File:Roman Empire-icon.png]] [[Roman Empire|Third Rome]]}}
|Alignments      = {{SB}}{{Info/AuthRight}}<br>{{Info/CultRight}} (often)<br>{{Info/Mon}}<br>{{Info/React}} (often)<br>{{Info/Religious}}
|Influenced By   = {{SB}}[[File:AbMon-icon.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism]]<br>[[File:AllRussianNation-icon.png]] [[All Russian Nation]]<br>[[File:AntiNihilism-icon.png]] [[Anti-Nihilism]]<br>{{i|AntiSoc}} [[Anti-Socialism]]<br>[[File:Autocracy-icon.png]] [[Autocracy]]<br>{{i|Caesarism}} [[Caesarism]]<br>{{i|EnightAb}} [[Enlightened Absolutism]] (some)<br>{{i|Great Russian Chauvinism}} [[Great Russian Chauvinism]] (many)<br>{{i|OrthoTheo}} [[Orthodox Theocracy]]<br>{{i|Reactionary}} [[Reactionaryism]] (most)<br>[[File:Caste System-icon.png]] [[Caste System|Serf System]] (before 1861)<br>{{i|Byzantine Model}} [[Byzantine Model|Third Rome]]<br>{{i|Tradition}} [[Traditionalism]]
|Influenced      = [[File:NeoTsar-icon.png]] [[Neo-Tsarism]]<br>{{i|WhiteMove}} [[White Movement]]
|Notable People  = 
*[[File:Russia-icon.png]] '''Russia''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**[[File:IvanTerrible-icon.png]] [[Ivan the Terrible Thought|Ivan the Terrible]] (1530-1584)
**[[File:PeterGreat-icon.png]] [[Petrinism|Peter I the Great]] (1672-1725)
**[[File:Peter3-icon.png]] [[Peter III Thought|Peter III]] (1728-1762)
**[[File:Catherinianism-icon.png]] [[Catherinianism|Catherine II]] (1729-1796)
**[[File:NicholasI-icon.png]] [[Nicholas I Thought|Nicholas I]] (1796-1855)
**[[File:Alexander2-icon.png]] [[Alexander the Liberator Thought|Alexander II the Liberator]] (1818-1881)
**[[File:Alexander3-icon.png]] [[Alexander III Thought|Alexander III]] (1845-1894)
**[[File:Nicholas2-icon.png]] [[Nicholas II Thought|Nicholas II]] (1868-1918)
*[[File:Earth-icon.png]] '''Others''' <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**[[File:1stBulgEmp-icon.png]] [[First Bulgarian Empire|Simeon I of Bulgaria]] (864/865-927)
**[[File:Tsar Bulgaria-icon.png]] [[Tsardom of Bulgaria|Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]] (1861-1948)
|Notable Examples= {{SB}}
*[[File:1stBulgEmp-icon.png]] [[First Bulgarian Empire]] (681-1018)
*[[File:Tsardom of Russia-icon.png]] [[Tsardom of Russia]] (1547-1721)
*[[File:Russian Empire-icon.png]] [[Russian Empire]] (1721-1917)
*[[File:Tsar Bulgaria-icon.png]] [[Tsardom of Bulgaria]] (1908-1946)
|Friends         =
|Enemies         =
|Likes           =
|Dislikes        = [[File:Lenin-icon.png]] [[Leninism|Vladimir Lenin]]<br>[[File:Jew-icon.png]][[File:Poland-icon.png]][[File:Ukraine-icon.png]][[File:Georgia-icon.png]] [[Xenophobia|minorities]] [[File:Chechen Republic-icon.png]][[File:Crimea-icon.png]][[File:Finland-icon.png]][[File:Beiyang-icon.png]] (often)
|themecolor = #FFCC33
}}'''Tsarist Autocracy''', or simply '''Tsarism''', alternative spelling <b>Czarism</b>, is a regional tendency of [[File:AbMon-icon.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism]]. He is an [[File:AuthRight-icon.png]] [[Authoritarian Right]], [[File:Tradition-icon.png]] [[Traditionalism|Culturally Conservative]], and Economically Far-Right ideology. Tsarism believes that a Tsar, a Monarch, should rule the government, making it a [[File:Slav-icon.png]] [[Slavs|Slavic]] version of [[File:Monarchy-icon.png]] [[Monarchism]]. It is distinctly [[File:Orthodoxy-icon.png]] [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] and for some time supported a {{i|Caste System}} [[Caste System|serf system]], believing [[File:The Father-icon.png]] [[Monotheism|Lord]]'s rights over human rights.

== History ==
Tsarism began with Ivan IV, known as [[File:IvanTerrible-icon.png]] [[Ivan the Terrible Thought|Ivan the Terrible]], who was crowned the first Tsar of [[File:AllRussianNation-icon.png]] [[All-Russian Nation|All Russia]] in 1547. His reign marked the centralization of power in the hands of the Tsar, diminishing the influence of the [[File:Oligarchy-icon.png]] [[Oligarchy|boyars]] (nobility). The [[File:Romanov-icon.png]] [[House of Romanov|Romanov dynasty]], which started with [[File:Romanov-icon.png]] [[House of Romanov|Michael Romanov]] in 1613, continued this trend, expanding the [[File:Russian Empire-icon.png]] [[Russian Empire]] significantly and consolidating [[File:Autocracy-icon.png]] [[Autocracy|autocratic]] rule. Tsar [[File:PeterGreat-icon.png]] [[Petrinism|Peter the Great]] (reigned 1682-1725) further modernized [[File:Russian Empire-icon.png]] [[Russian Empire|Russia]] by adopting Western technologies and administrative reforms, transforming Russia into a major European power. His successors, including [[File:Catherinianism-icon.png]] [[Catherinianism|Catherine the Great]], continued these efforts, but the [[File:Autocracy-icon.png]] [[Autocracy|autocratic]] nature of Tsarism often led to social and political tensions.

By the 19th century, the autocratic system faced significant challenges from a rapidly changing society. The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 by Tsar [[File:Alexander2-icon.png]] [[Alexander the Liberator Thought|Alexander II]] marked a significant reform, but it did not quell rising discontent among the peasantry and the growing industrial working class. When the tsars embraced market oriented reform (but slacked on ensuring protections for the serf population) they never managed to integrate {{i|Siberia}} [[Siberia]] and new Russia effectively nor did they try to force these regions, they had an actual communal system of subsistence agriculture and surplus trade. It wasn't competitive, but it was far more harmonious with nature. And then, spoilers alert, {{i|MarxLenin}} [[Marxism-Leninism|communism]] came and ripped all of that apart.

The early 20th century saw increasing revolutionary activity, culminating in the Russian Revolution of 1905, which resulted in Tsar [[File:Nicholas2-icon.png]] [[Nicholas II Thought|Nicholas II]] democratizing the government, such the creation of the [[File:Parliament-icon.png]] [[Imperial Duma|Duma]] (parliament). However, the {{i|Autocracy}} [[Autocracy|autocratic]] structure largely remained intact until the February Revolution of 1917, which led to [[File:Nicholas2-icon.png]] [[Nicholas II Thought|Nicholas II]]'s abdication and the eventual collapse of Tsarist rule, paving the way for the bloody [[File:MarxLenin-icon.png]] [[Bolsheviks|Bolshevik]] Revolution and the establishment of the [[File:USSR-icon.png]] [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]].

== Relationships ==
=== Friends ===
*{{i|Byzantine Model}} [[Byzantine Model]] - [[File:Greece-icon.png]] [[Greece|Greek]] brother that I kept safe here in Russia.
*[[File:Orthodoxy-icon.png]] [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox Theocracy]] - God Save the Tsar!
*[[File:Caste System-icon.png]] [[Caste System]] - The institution that kept me in power for so long!
*[[File:Slav-icon.png]] [[Slavs|Pan-Slavism]] - The Slavic World must be liberated from its oppressors!

=== Enemies ===
*[[File:Socialism-icon.png]] [[Socialism]] - I already freed the serfs what else do you want! Not my fault that that the Great War happened! 
*[[File:MarxLenin-icon.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism]] - DAMN YOU! YOU DESTROYED CENTURIES WORTH OF CULTURE!
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*[[File:Ottoman-icon.png]] [[Ottomanism]] - I enjoyed wrecking your ahh!
*{{i|Meiji}} [[Meijism]] - Stop, no, you can't do that. We were gonna build a railroad through {{i|Manchu}} [[Manchuria]] to try to get some warm water.

== How to draw ==
{{Flag|RussianEmpFlag2.png|Flag of the Russian Empire}}

# Draw a ball.
# Fill the ball with three horizontal stripes of color top-to-bottom in the following order: black, yellow, white.
# Add the eyes and you are done!
# Add a tsar crown (optional)
{{FlagColour
|c1 = Black
|h1 = #000000
|c2 = Yellow
|h2 = #FFCD01
|c3 = White
|h3 = #FFFFFF
}}

== Gallery ==
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== See Also ==
*[[File:Nicholas2-icon.png]] [[Nicholas II Thought]]
*{{i|Russian Empire}} [[Russian Empire]]

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