King Frederick William, in a magnanimous gesture, presented the entire room to the tsar. |
For the tsar, Russia was not the invulnerable bastion of autocracy and the invincible victor over Napoleon that she seemed to foreigners. |
The reign of Alexander III did a great deal to extend the power of the tsar at the expense of liberties taken for granted in Western Europe. |
As a result he received the blessing of the Byzantine patriarch and the title of tsar of Bulgaria. |
By the end of the day the members of the Provisional Government were under arrest, the tsar and his family were also under house arrest. |
Historical artefacts preserved from that period show the might of the Bulgarian tsar dynasties and the influence of the Bulgarian Patriarch. |