| Victim of the Bolsheviks | 24 |
| Title in Russian history | 24 |
| Russian ruler, of yore | 22 |
| Russia's leader in 1916 | 27 |
| Ruler of the Cossacks, once | 27 |
| Ruler in old St. Petersburg | 27 |
| Ruler before 1917 (Var.) | 24 |
| Recipient of Faberge eggs | 25 |
| Pre-Russian Revolution ruler | 28 |
| Pre-Communist autocrat | 22 |
| Peter or Paul, e.g. (Var.) | 26 |
| Peter or Ivan, historically | 27 |
| Peter or Ivan, e.g. (Var.) | 26 |
| Old totalitarian ruler | 22 |
| Leader overthrown in 1917 | 25 |
| Former Russian royalty | 22 |
| February Revolution victim | 26 |
| Bygone Russian autocrat | 23 |
| Big man in Russia, once | 23 |
| Alexandra's Nicholas | 24 |
| Winter Palace resident once | 28 |
| Winter Palace residence | 23 |
| Winter Palace potentate | 23 |
| Victim of a 1917 revolution | 27 |
| Tolstoy's sovereign | 23 |
| The first one ruled 1547-84 | 27 |
| Simeon I, for one (Var.) | 24 |
| Shah : Iran :: ___ : Russia | 27 |
| Russian V.I.P. of yore | 22 |
| Russian ruler until 1917 | 24 |
| Russian monarch, once (Var.) | 28 |
| Russian leader of yore | 22 |
| Russian despot of yore | 22 |
| Russia's Nicholas I, e.g. | 29 |
| Russia's Alexis I, e.g. | 27 |
| Ruler mixed up in arts | 22 |
| Ruler before the revolution | 27 |
| Romanov royal of Russia | 23 |
| Romanov dynasty member (Var.) | 29 |
| Romanov dynasty member | 22 |
| Prerevolutionary ruler | 22 |
| Prerevolutionary leader | 23 |
| Pre-Soviet ruler (Var.) | 23 |
| Pre-revolution ruler (Var.) | 27 |
| Pre-communism leader (Var.) | 27 |
| Power-mad ruler of old | 22 |
| Peter I or Ivan IV, e.g. | 24 |
| Paul I, Peter II, or Ivan III | 29 |
| Palace potentate of the past | 28 |
| Onetime Russian monarch | 23 |
| One-time Kremlin dweller | 24 |
| Old Russian royal (Var.) | 24 |
| Old Russian bigwig (Var.) | 25 |
| Old Russian autocrat (Var.) | 27 |
| Nicholas or Alexander, e.g. | 27 |
| Nicholas Il was the last | 24 |
| Nicholas I or II, e.g. | 22 |
| Mussorgsky's Boris | 22 |
| Mikhail Fyodorovich was one | 27 |
| Michael Romanov was one | 23 |
| Member of an old Russian line | 29 |
| Leader in the Crimean War | 25 |
| Kaiser's counterpart | 24 |
| Ivan the Terrible's title | 29 |
| Ivan or Nicholas, e.g. | 22 |
| Godunov Dynasty member | 22 |
| Former St. Petersburg royal | 27 |
| Former Kremlin resident | 23 |
| Forced abdicator of 1917 | 24 |
| Figure in a 1917 revolution | 27 |
| Fabergé egg recipient | 24 |
| Fabergé Egg collector | 24 |
| Erstwhile despot (Var.) | 23 |
| Dweller in the Peterhof | 23 |
| Customer of Fabergé eggs | 27 |
| Cossacks' employer | 22 |
| Catherine's husband | 23 |
| Bygone Kremlin resident | 23 |
| Bygone autocrat (Var.) | 22 |
| Boris Godunov, for one (Var.) | 29 |
| Bolsheviks' target | 22 |
| Bolshevik's quarry | 22 |
| Bolshevik's bête noire | 29 |
| Big wheel pre-1917 (Var.) | 25 |
| Autocrat until 1917 (Var.) | 26 |
| Anarchists' foe, once | 25 |
| Anagram for "rats" | 28 |
| Alexandra's husband, e.g. | 29 |
| Aleksei Mikhailovich, e.g. | 26 |
| "Terrible" title | 26 |
| __ Bell (Kremlin attraction) | 28 |
| Russian ruler's domain | 26 |
| Realm for Peter or Ivan | 23 |
| Alexander's rule, e.g. | 26 |
| Alexandra Feodorovna, for one | 29 |
| Russian emperor's wife | 26 |
| Certain autocrat's wife | 27 |
| Catherine I of Russia, e.g. | 27 |
| Russian royals of yore | 22 |
| Catherine the Great et al. | 26 |