Related Clues:
- Peter or Ivan, e.g. (Var.)
- Former Winter Palace resident
- Boris Godunov, e.g.
- Old totalitarian ruler
- Alexander, e.g.
- Old Russian bigwig
- Pre-1917 bigwig
- Anticommunist leader
- 26- or 55-Down
- Rimsky-Korsakov's ''The Tale of ___ Saltan''
- Nicholas II, for one
- Despot of old
- Deposed despot
- More out there
- Pre-1917 monarch