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• Tyrants (Var.)
• Using hyperbole, what the Russians call their stars for a change?
• Business magnates
• Bygone emperors
• Autocrats (Var.)
• Winter Palace residents of old
• Russian rulers of the past (Var.)
• Plural and alternate spelling of 34-Down
• Bygone autocrats (Var.)
• Nicholas I and II, for two
• Old Russia's rulers
• Old monarchs
• Kings, perhaps, get to the stable first via a new star
• Emperors finally contract severe lung infection
• Onetime Russian rulers