The only difference was that the tsar had cut himself off from them, and they were not even to communicate with him except on extraordinary and exceptional occasions.
Causes could be evoked to the tsar himself, " when any partiality of the judges in any affair in which they themselves were interested was discovered" (ib.).
The Tsar won't forget your service.
He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian arms and the hope of future triumph.
The young tsar married the boyarinya Lopukhina at his mother's command.