Tsar Paul I of Russia sent, among other rewards, a gold box studded with diamonds and similar gifts in silver arrived from other European rulers.

Elizabeth sent a new ambassador, Dr. Giles Fletcher, to demand from the regent Boris Godunov that he convince the Tsar to reconsider.

Father Raphael was sent to New York City in 1895 by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia to administer the local Orthodox Christian community then composed essentially of Russian and Middle-Eastern immigrants.

The four of them were afterwards sent to the Bulgarian capital of Pliska, where they were commissioned by Tsar Boris I of Bulgaria to instruct the future clergy of the state in the Slavonic language.

In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them ; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.

He then laid siege to Varna and sent Tsar Ivan Alexander an ultimatum to release John V or suffer further defeat.

For the 1829 campaign on the Danube, Tsar Nicholas dismissed the ailing Wittgenstein and handed the Russian command to his more aggressive compatriot, Count von Diebitsch, who succeeded in capturing Silistra and then surprised the Ottomans with a high-speed drive for the Ottoman capital Constantinople ( Istanbul ), bypassing Shumla and routing an Ottoman army sent to intercept him.

Determined to raise money to further the musical careers of both Anton and his younger brother Nikolai, their mother sent Rubinstein and Villoing on a tour of Russia, following which the brothers were dispatched to Saint Petersburg to play for Tsar Nicholas I and the Imperial family at the Winter Palace.

In 1906, Tsar Nicholas II sent a secret agent to China to collect intelligence on the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty.

Tsar decrees were sent to starshina inviting them to Glukhov.

Tsar Alexis sent a garrison of Streltsy to protect the fort from Cossack incursions.

After violence erupted, however, Mikhail Rodzianko, Chairman of the Duma, sent the Tsar a report of the chaos in a telegram ( exact wordings and translations differ, but each retains a similar sense ):

Foreign rulers like the Emperor of Austria, Russian Tsar Peter the Great and even the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire sent tall soldiers to him in order to encourage friendly relations.

The fort fell on June 21 and the Cossacks sent a request to the Tsar for re-enforcements and support.

Eventually Nicholas, the new Tsar, appeared in person, at the square, and sent Count Mikhail Miloradovich, a military hero who was greatly respected by ordinary soldiers, to parley with the rebels.

Maistre's relations with the court at Cagliari were not always easy and in 1803 he was sent to Saint Petersburg in Russia, as ambassador to Tsar Alexander I.

Tsar Alexander I of Russia mustered an army of 250, 000 troops and sent these rolling toward the Rhine.

Boniface was killed in an ambush by the Bulgarians on September 4, 1207, and his head was sent to Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan.

In 1661, after further experience as a soldier of fortune, he took up service in the Russian army under Tsar Aleksei I, and in 1665 was sent on a special mission to England.

After their first victory at Albazin in 1685, the Manchus sent two letters to the Tsar ( in Latin ) suggesting peace and demanding that Russian freebooters leave the Amur.

In 1856 Russell was sent to Moscow to describe the coronation of Tsar Alexander II and in the following year was sent to India where he witnessed the final re-capture of Lucknow ( 1858 ).

In 1829 he was sent by the Tsar on an exploratory trip to the Caucasus.

In 1807, he sent a letter to the Russian General of the Danube Army regarding this subject: " The Russian Czar would be recognized as the Tsar of the Serbs and the Metropolitan of Montenegro would be his assistant.

But in 1648 beginning of the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine, at this time in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which continues until 1654, and results is concluded in the city of Pereyaslav during the meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Russia the Treaty of Pereyaslav.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

* March 12 – 13 – The Treaty of Pereyaslav is concluded in the city of Pereyaslav during the meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Russia, following the end to the Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine, which had started in 164 and had resulted in the massacre of an estimated 100, 000 Jews.

In the letter to Tsar the Cossacks reported:

In 1798, Tsar Paul I recognized the Don Kalmyks as Don Cossacks.

Semyakin wrote home with news of the action at Balaclava, and what he considered a great success – " Many Turks and English were killed by our Russian bayonets, and many English were pierced with lances of our Uhlans and Cossacks, and by sabres of our Hussars … God grant that the heart of the Tsar rejoices.

In March 1642, Sultan Ibrahim issued an ultimatum and Tsar Mikhail ordered the Cossacks to evacuate.

The city rebelled against the Tsar once again in 1705, when it was held by the Cossacks under Kondraty Bulavin.

In 1774, Suvorov was dispatched to suppress the rebellion of Pugachev, who claimed to be the assassinated Tsar Peter III, but arrived at the scene only in time to conduct the first interrogation of the rebel leader, who had been betrayed by his fellow Cossacks and was eventually beheaded in Moscow.

The Cossacks built forts in strategic locations and subjected the indigenous people to the Tsar.

The Cossacks were much more assertive than the Nogais ( who quickly became vassals to the Tsar ), and they soon replaced the Nogais as the regional rival.

" In 1549 the infamous Tsar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible, replied to a request of the Turkish Sultan to stop the aggressive actions of the Don Cossacks, stating, " The Cossacks of the Don are not my subjects, and they go to war or live in peace without my knowledge.

The Treaty of Pereyaslav ( Pereiaslav ) was concluded in 1654 in the Ukrainian city of Pereyaslav ( Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi nowadays ), at a meeting between the Cossacks of the Zaporizhian Host and Tsar Alexey I of Tsardom of Russia, during the Khmelnytsky rebellion.

However, only 3, 000 Cossacks followed their Hetman, with rest remaining loyal to the Tsar.

The Tsar also affirmed that his subordinates, the Cossacks, would not attack the Ottomans, while the Sultan affirmed his subordinates, the Crimean Tatars, would not attack the Russians.

Kuchum Khan's attempt to spread Islam and his cross border raids were vigorously opposed by the Russian Tsar who sent a force of Cossacks to confront him head on.

In 1709, Tsar Peter I ordered the destruction of the Old Sich, forcing the Zaporozhian Cossacks to flee to Oleshky, on the Black Sea in Ottoman territory.

The Cossacks, ravaging the environs of Moscow, acknowledged him as Tsar on March 2, 1612, and under threat of vengeance in case of non-compliance, the gentry of Pskov also " kissed the cross " ( i. e., swore allegiance ) to the thief of Pskov, as he was usually nicknamed.

Many of the Cossacks in Siberia were rather close to bandits and could cause trouble if not restrained by the Tsar.

When the Tsar refused to defend Ukraine against the Polish King Stanislaus Leszczynski, an ally of Charles XII of Sweden, Mazepa and the Zaporozhian Cossacks allied themselves with the Swedes on October 28, 1708.

The Tsar felt threatened by the Treaty of Hadiach, which weakened his hold on Cossacks.

Only about 3, 000 Cossacks, mostly Zaporozhians, followed Mazepa, while others remained loyal to the Tsar.