Related Clues:

• Sly trick
• Opera 'The Tale of ___ Saltan'
• Bogeyman
• Nicholas or Alexander
• Vlad the Impaler, e.g.
• Brute
• Paul I, e.g.
• Menace
• Pre-Soviet royalty
• Big brute
• Scheme
• Nicholas II, e.g.
• Alexis, e.g.
• Winter Palace dweller, once
• Peter the Great, e.g.