Tsaritsa

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A Tsaritsa (Template:Lang-ru, also Bulgarian), also spelled czaritsa (in English sometimes arrangement word, tsarina or czarina, is used), which is the title of Tsar's wife or a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Russia or Bulgaria. Since 1721, the official titles of the Russian male and female monarchs were Emperor and Empress, respectively.

Several Tsarinas were the rulers of Russia including Catherine I, Catherine the Great and Elizabeth I .

Others who gained the title by marrying a Tsar were Elizabeth Alexeevna, Alexandra Fyodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia), Maria Alexandrovna, Maria Fyodorovna and Eleonore, Princess Reuss-Köstritz, who became Tsarina of Bulgaria following her marriage to Tsar Ferdinand.

The last Russian Tsarina was Alexandra Fyodorovna who was married to Nicholas II of Russia. The last Bulgarian Tsarina was Giovanna of Bulgaria, the wife of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria.

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