| Only at home did he remove the mask of the iron autocrat and become a warm personality. |
| Like every autocrat who has ever seized power, she insisted that she had no alternative but to sack a corrupt and treacherous government. |
| They established a framework for a strongly authoritarian government and placed no limitations on the powers of the autocrat. |
| The ageing autocrat obviously intended to remain in power at any cost and by any means. |
| After the battle at Aheloi, Tsar Simeon proclaimed the Bulgarian church a patriarchate and himself an emperor and autocrat of the Romans. |
| Catherine had innumerable lovers and did not find it contradictory to her enlightenment that she ruled Russia as an absolute autocrat. |
