Who was the Tsar of Prussia?

Answer 1

Frederick I was crowned as the first Prussian King in 1701. In order to reassure the Holy Roman Emperor that he had no intention of challenging the latter's authority he called himself King in Prussia. His grandson, Frederick II (the Great) changed the title to King of Prussia when he became king in 1740.

Answer 2

You need to say when. Yes, that might help: The name that springs to mind for me is Bismarck. Prince Blucher was their best General in the Napoleonic wars. Frederick the Great is among the finest Generals in history.

Answer 3

Despite the similarity of the names, Prussia and Russia were two separate countries. Actually, to be technically correct, Russia was an empire, ruled over by the Tsar (or Czar, depending on who you ask), the last of which was Tsar Nicholas II. The word "Tsar" means "Emperor", or more specifically, "Caesar", in emulation of the Ancient Romans, whose Emperors took the title of Caesar as part of their title because of the prestige it conferred on them, whether they were members of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty or not.

Nicholas II was the last autocrat, or absolute monarch, in Europe, and certainly the most fabulously wealthy, until the Russian Revolution and his forced abdication in 1917, followed by the murder of his entire family by revolutionaries in Ekaterinberg in July, 1918.

Now about Prussia. Prussia was one of the largest and most powerful of the German kingdoms, of which there were hundreds, most of them tiny Electorates, Bishoprics, Margravates, Duchies, Baronies, and so on, each with its own petty princeling, issuing its own currency, with its own laws, and frequently at war with one another, with the German Language being the single unifying factor between them. These made up, as a whole, the Holy Roman Empire, which after a thousand years of existence was dissolved during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806. Eventually, later in the 19th century, the German states were finally unified under one monarch, who happened to be the King of Prussia, Wilhelm, who became Kaiser Wilhelm I. "Kaiser" being yet another derivative of the name "Caesar", and meaning "Emperor" in this case as well.