Czarina

To a certain extent undoubtedly this may be traced back to the new czar's personal relations with the rulers of other nations; for the czarina was a sister of ❋ Francis Trevelyan Miller (1902)

Brought into Barack Obama's inner circle as his "czarina" for energy and climate issues — a brand-new White House post — she is now mainly a back-room coordinator. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The same day, incoming budget director Peter Orszag turned 40 and Obama's climate-change "czarina," Carol Browner, turned 53. ❋ Unknown (2009)

White SeaWhite Sea is the electro creation of L.A.-based songstress and cellist/pianist Morgan Kibby, former czarina of The Romanovs. ❋ Phil Ramone (2011)

As the czarina informed Diderot: "You work only on paper which accepts anything, is smooth and flexible and offers no obstacles either to your imagination or your pen, while I, poor empress, work on human skin, which is far more sensitive and touchy." ❋ Jennifer Siegel (2011)

Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. ❋ Jennifer Siegel (2011)

Then came a miracle—the death of the Russian czarina Elizabeth and the succession of her Prussophile nephew, Peter. ❋ Gideon Rose (2010)

He said it was state property, since Alexandra was the czarina of All the Russias. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

Well, here's a memo for the inbox of our book czar (or czarina) to-be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The czarina Alexandra, she amended, loved her children very much, and she worried endlessly about Alexeis health. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

Ivan realized he had never heard the grand duchess speak in his time at the castle, nor had he heard the czarina. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

Browner is appropriately ironic about her nickname from the Obama campaign: the czarina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though he never laid eyes on any member of the Imperial Family back then, he had once bumped into the czarina Alexandras sinister adviser, the supposed holy man Father Grigory Rasputin. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

I'm pretty sure she wouldn't give up a Senate seat to be a czar or czarina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The czarina Alexandra, having been born in Germany and having spent many summers in England with her grandmother, Queen Victoria, was familiar with the luxurious life and often intervened on behalf of the girls. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

Labels of czarina, Stalinist, and even Nazi -- were bandied about without restraint. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her and the late Alexander III both thought she was odd and not up to the job of being czarina. ❋ Matterhorn (2009)

Sergei and Ivan joined him to see a photo of the count in the company of the czar and czarina, their four daughters, and their son, Alexei. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)

I think Rasputin and the czarina were in the dream. ❋ Suzanne Weyn (2009)