| King Frederick William, in a magnanimous gesture, presented the entire room to the tsar. |
| The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch. |
| He dressed in rags and rarely took a bath, which fascinated the carefully washed and perfumed aristocrats round the tsar and his family. |
| In the reign of the Bulgarian tsar Boris I, those territories were incorporated into several komitati. |
| As a result he received the blessing of the Byzantine patriarch and the title of tsar of Bulgaria. |
| 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. |
