0 relating to a tsar (= a male ruler of Russia until 1917):
the tsarist empire
Tsarist Russia
1 someone who supports a tsarist system of government (= one that is led by a tsar):
The city was built by the tsarist empire in the early 19th century.
He is taking over the management of a Russian hotel which used to be a Tsarist palace.
She opposed both the Communists and the Tsarists.
Anarchists assume he is an anarchist; tsarists assume he is a tsarist.
The tsarists adapted the alphabet to the needs of the dialects of their vast empire.
Indeed, members of the tsarist government and academics often disagreed about possible areas of co-operation.
One did not have to be on the left to despise the appalling repressiveness of the late tsarist regime.
