Related Clues:

• Burrowing animal
• Overlord of old
• Pre-Lenin Russian ruler
• Rasputin's advisee
• See 43-Down
• Anastasia's father
• Peter or Ivan, e.g.
• "A Life for the ___" (Glinka opera)
• Despot of yore
• Peter I or Ivan IV
• Peter or Paul, e.g.
• Russian leader of old
• Mikhail Romanov, e.g.
• VW model
• Ruler before 1917 (Var.)