tsarevna

English

A portrait of Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia, by I. N. Nikitin, 1714

Alternative forms

• czarevna
• tsesarevna
• tzarevna
• Tsarevna (particularly when used as a title)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian царе́вна (carévna).

Noun

tsarevna (plural tsarevnas)

1. The daughter of a tsar.
   • 1967, Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time‎^[1], volume 1, page 138:

     The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.

   • 2004, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov, Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia‎^[2], page 186:

     And a long line of bridegrooms courted the tsarevna one after another: […] Perhaps the fastidious tsarevna might even have found some of the bridegrooms to her liking.

   • 2010, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Alexandra S. Korros, Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich, Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, page 120,

     There he became acquainted with maids in service to Ekaterina Alekseevna, Peter the Great's half-sister, and through them, he gained the tsarevna’s favor.

Related terms

• tsar
• tsarevich
• tsarina
• tsaritsa

Anagrams

• Tsarnaev, aversant, tavernas