| Old overlord | 12 |
| Old leader | 10 |
| Old head of state | 17 |
| Noted Russian victim | 20 |
| Noted 1918 casualty | 19 |
| Mighty monarch | 14 |
| Michael Romanov, e.g. | 21 |
| Male monarch (Var.) | 19 |
| Male monarch | 12 |
| Leader overthrown in 1917 | 25 |
| Ivan was one | 12 |
| Ivan the Terrible, for example | 30 |
| Ivan the Terrible | 17 |
| Ivan IV, e.g. | 13 |
| Ivan | 4 |
| Godunov, for one | 16 |
| Glinka's "A Life for the ___" | 43 |
| Former Russian royalty | 22 |
| Feodor, e.g. | 12 |
| February Revolution victim | 26 |
| Erstwhile autocrat | 18 |
| Early anti-communist | 20 |
| Early 1900s ruler | 17 |
| Dictatorial person | 18 |
| Despot until 1917 | 17 |
| Despot of the past | 18 |
| Crimean War leader | 18 |
| Bygone Russian ruler | 20 |
| Bygone Russian autocrat | 23 |
| Bygone royal Russian | 20 |
| Big man in Russia, once | 23 |
| Bear head, once | 15 |
| Basil was one | 13 |
| Arts anagram | 12 |
| All-powerful ruler | 18 |
| Alexis I, e.g. | 14 |
| Alexandra's Nicholas | 24 |
| Alexandra's husband (Var.) | 30 |
| Alexander II, e.g. | 18 |
| 1917 abdicator | 14 |
| "God Save the __!": Russian Empire anthem | 51 |
| "A Life for the ___" (Glinka opera) | 45 |
| Word that's an accidental acronym of a Hemingway title | 58 |
| Word derived from "Caesar" | 36 |
| Winter Palace resident once | 28 |
| Winter Palace residence | 23 |
| Winter Palace potentate | 23 |
| Winter Palace despot | 20 |
| White Russian ruler | 19 |
| Weill's "The ___ Has His Photograph Taken" | 56 |
| Villagers' tormentor in "Fiddler on the Roof" | 59 |
| Victim of a 1917 revolution | 27 |
| Van Cleef & Arpels cologne | 30 |
| V.I.P. of yore | 14 |
| Unseen "Fiddler on the Roof" tyrant | 45 |
| Tyrant of yore | 14 |
| Type of despot | 14 |
| Trotsky's target | 20 |
| Toppled tyrant | 14 |
| Top Romanov (Var.) | 18 |
| Top Romanov | 11 |
| Top authority | 13 |
| Tolstoy's sovereign | 23 |
| Tolstoy's "___ Fyodor Ivanovich" | 46 |
| Title of the first Fabergé egg owner | 39 |
| Title for the son of Basil III | 30 |
| Title derived from the name "Caesar" | 46 |
| The first one ruled 1547-84 | 27 |
| Terrible title? | 15 |
| Supreme ruler | 13 |
| Studio head (Var.) | 18 |
| Studio head | 11 |
| Slavonic sovereign | 18 |
| Simeon I, for one (Var.) | 24 |
| Shah : Iran :: ___ : Russia | 27 |
| Russian V.I.P. of yore | 22 |
| Russian V.I.P. | 14 |
| Russian sovereign, once (Var.) | 30 |
| Russian ruler until 1917 | 24 |
| Russian ruler before the revolution | 35 |
| Russian Revolution victim (Var.) | 32 |
| Russian personage | 17 |
| Russian monarch, once (Var.) | 28 |
| Russian leader of yore | 22 |
| Russian dynast | 14 |
| Russian despot of yore | 22 |
| Russian despot of old | 21 |
| Russian anarchists' foe, once | 33 |
| Russia's Nicholas II, e.g. | 30 |
| Russia's Nicholas I, e.g. | 29 |
| Russia's Alexis I, e.g. | 27 |
| Rurik ruler | 11 |
| Ruler's title derived from "Caesar" | 49 |
| Ruler with a line? | 18 |
| Ruler whose more common spelling is rare in crosswords | 54 |
| Ruler over Tolstoy | 18 |
| Ruler of yore (Var.) | 20 |
| Ruler of the past | 17 |
| Ruler of the Cossacks | 21 |
| Ruler mixed up in arts | 22 |