tzar

Came across a few images of the Russian tsars, czars, rulers or whatever you wanna call these individuals. I am not sure I understand at what point they were counted like that, for we appear to know certain individuals as: Alexander I of Russia Alexander II of Russia Why do we have Alexander...

This is like a variation of the same story, no matter where you look. Now it is the Russian City of Saint Petersburg. It actually has a pretty cool legend about how it was founded, and how it was built. "On 16 May 1703, while looking over sparse marshlands near the mouth of the Baltic Sea that...