Referring Clues

• Several Peters
• Michael and Peter
• Former Russian sovereigns
• Ivan and Nicholas
• Pre-1917 Russian rulers
• Autocrats
• Pre-Revolution leaders
• Some Romanovs
• Winter Palace residents
• Russian royals
• Old Russian despots
• Bygone dictators
• "The ___ Bride" (Rimsky-Korsakov opera)
• Palace figures
• Bygone autocrats
• Russian despots
• Winter Palace figures
• Former despots
• Pre-1917 autocrats
• Peter and Paul
• Autocrats of old
• Nicholas and Ivan, e.g.
• Michael and others
• Crowned heads of old
• Rulers before Lenin
• Romanov V.I.P.'s
• Bygone leaders
• Reds' old foes
• Russian line
• Peter and others
• Bygone monarchs
• Alexander and others
• Romanov rulers
• Peter and Paul, but not Mary
• Simeon the Great and his successors
• Some Peters
• Old dynasty members
• Pre-1917 rulers
• Former Winter Palace residents
• Russian dynasts of yore
• Ivan and Peter, e.g.
• Summer Palace residents
• Russian rulers of yore
• Russian rulers, once
• Russian rulers of yesteryear
• Ivan, Peter, and Alexander
• Former Russian leaders
• Despots of old
• Moscow monarchs of yore
• Former Russian VIPs
• Alexis and Basil
• Old dynasts
• Rulers until 1917
• Bygone rulers
• Crimean War figures
• Peter the Great et al.
• Old Russian rulers
• Rulers of old
• Alexander and Peter
• Bygone despots
• Peter and Nicholas
• Old autocrats
• Feodor and Peter
• Rulers of yore
• Nicholas I and II, e.g.
• Onetime autocrats
• Bygone Russian rulers
• Former Russian rulers
• Catherine the Great's six successors
• Pre-Russian-Revolution leaders
• Crowned heads of Russia
• Crowned heads of old Russia
• Winter Palace dwellers
• Some past despots
• "The ___ Bride" (Rimsky-Korsakov opera)
• 1917 marked their end
• Nicholas and Alexander, e.g.
• Nicholas I and Nicholas II
• Past potentates
• Industry bigwigs
• Former Russian despots
• Deposed rulers
• Erstwhile Russian rulers
• Certain autocrats
• Boris Godunov and others
• Despots
• Peter and Alexander, notably
• Old crowned heads?
• Ruling Romanovs
• Pre-revolution leaders (Var.)
• Certain autocrats (Var.)
• Ivans IV and V (Var.)
• Ivan V and Vasili IV, for II
• Russian rulers
• Latter-day Caesars
• Pre-Lenin rulers
• Russian rulers of old
• Russian potentates
• Bygone Russian despots
• Bygone dynasts
• Autocrats of yore
• Ivan the Terrible et al.
• Russian leaders before 1917
• Some Russian rulers
• Summer Palace residents, once
• Some old dynasts
• Past dynasts
• Obsolete rulers
• Old overlords
• Faberge egg recipients
• Dictators of old
• Tyrants
• Historical figures of Russia
• Historical figures of Russia
• Three Ivans
• Old Russian royals
• Serbian Empire rulers
• Romanov royals
• Pre-Soviet autocrats
• Nicholas I and others
• Old Russian monarchs
• Old line in Russia
• Old Russian dynasts
• Old despots
• Pre-Soviet succession
• High chiefs of sports
• Old Russian line
• Winter Palace succession
• Old Russian leaders
• Nicholas and Peter
• Bygone Russian leaders
• Line that ended in 1917
• Nicholas I and II
• Alexander et al.
• Strongmen of old
• Russian dynasts, once
• Ivan IV and V
• Kaiser cousins
• Peter and Alexander
• Russian dynasts of the past
• Tyrants (Var.)
• Bygone royalty
• Autocrats (Var.)
• Winter Palace residents of old
• They make ukases
• Ex-rulers of Russia
• Nicholas I and II, for two
• Russian emperors
• Nicholas and Alexander
• Onetime Russian rulers
• Bygone emperors
• Medieval Bulgarian rulers
• They had great power in Russia
• Old Russian autocrats
• Opponents of the Reds, once
• Alexander I, II and III, e.g.
• Romanov bigwigs
• Old rulers
• Peterhof Palace personages
• Russian monarchs no more
• What the ruling Romanovs were
• Autocrats no more
• Dynasts of yore
• Autocrats until 1917
• Pre-1917 Russian leaders
• Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great
• Former Russian royals
• Old Russian overlords
• Nicholas and Alexander, for two
• Russian monarchs of yore
• Pre-1917 despots
• Rulers before 1917
• Russian kings
• Tyrants of old
• Romanov stars, possibly?
• They were in Russia before Tass was created outright!
• Historic makers of stars
• Emperors
• Winter Palace occupants
• Nicholas II and his predecessors
• Pre-October Revolution rulers
• Catherine Palace residents
• Ivans IV and V, e.g.
• Russian succession of yore
• Bulgaria's Simeon I and Simeon II
• Peters out after 1762, for example
• Leaders, take some advice! Reduce staff, initially
• Old Eurasian rulers
• Old rulers, never red
• Nicholas II was the last of them in Russia
• Former Russian emperors
• Bygone Russians
• Peter and rulers like him
• Long line in Russia
• Way-old rulers
• Rulers during the Time of Troubles
• Majestically, they could have been stars
• Line that ended with Nicholas II
• Pre-Revolution VIPs
• Leaders before 41-Across
• Tchaikovsky's leaders
• Dynasts of old Russia
• 60-Down et al.
• Ukase issuers
• Peter and Catherine were great ones
• Bygone potentates
• Bygone royals
• Russian rulers until 1917
• Nicholas II was the last of them
• Former emperors
• Former Russian autocrats
• Ivan the Terrible and others
• The Russians ruined half Strasbourg
• Russian monarchs of old
• The Bolsheviks ruled after them
• They range from terrible to great
• Tyrants, autocrats
• Autocrats of old Russia
• Occupants of old Russia's Winter Palace
• Pre-1917 monarchs
• Nicholas II et al.
• Peter the Great and others
• Winter Palace rulers
• They lived in Russia's Winter Palace
• Romanov stars, possibly?
• Makeup of a long Russian line
• Some old rulers
• Old Bulgarian emperors
• Prerevolutionary rulers
• Rulers before the Bolsheviks
• Alexanders I-III
• Bygone Russian autocrats
• Eccentric stars who made history
• Rulers used to make many crosswords?
• Deposed autocrats