Ivan the Terrible:

Without thunder there is no rain, and without the Tsar, there is no Russia.

— Ivan the Terrible Early Modern

First Tsar of Russia

A proverb-like statement emphasizing the indispensability of his autocratic rule.

c. 1570s

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