Posted by Cabri
on 10/25/2008, 15:45:48, in reply to "Re: Pre-Pauline Law tiles and qualifications"
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Tsesarevich (sometimes transliterated as Cesarevich or Caesarevich) was the title of the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the emperors of Russia. It is often confused with "tsarevich" (czarevich), which is a distinct word with a different meaning: Tsarevich was the title for any son of a tsar.The wife of the Tsesarevich was the Tsesarevna. In 1762, upon succeeding to the imperial throne, Peter III accorded his only son Paul Petrovich (by the future Catherine the Great) the novel title of tsesarevich, he being the first of eleven Romanov heirs who would bear.When Paul acceded to the throne in 1796, he immediately declared his son tsesarevich, and the title was confirmed by law in 1797 as the official title for the heir to the throne (incorporated into Article 145 of the Fundamental Law
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