Related Clues:

• Pre-Red head
• Leader before Lenin
• Old ruler
• Peter III, for one
• Russia's Nicholas I, e.g.
• Past potentate
• Russian leader before 1917
• Bygone dictator
• Ivan or Peter
• Royal Russian ruler
• Old overlord
• Peter or Paul, but not Mary
• Russian despot of yore
• Erstwhile despot
• Foe of communism