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Suzdal is a town and the administrative ___MASK47___ of Suzdalsky District in Vladimir Oblast , Russia , located on the Kamenka River , north of the city of Vladimir , the administrative ___MASK47___ of the oblast . As of the 2010 Census , its population was 10 , 535 . An emperor ( through Old ___MASK84___ " empereor " from ) is a monarch , usually the sovereign ruler of an ___MASK50___ or another type of imperial realm . Empress , the female equivalent , ___MASK32___ indicate an emperor ' s wife (" empress consort "), mother (" empress dowager "), or a woman who rules in her own right (" empress regnant "). Emperors are generally recognized to be of a higher honour and rank than kings . In Europe the title of Emperor was , since the Middle Ages , considered equal or almost equal in dignity to that of Pope , due to the latter ' s position as visible head of the Church and spiritual leader of Western Europe . The Emperor of Japan is the only currently reigning monarch whose title is translated into English as " Emperor ". Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky ( 13 ___MASK32___ 1221  14 November 1263 ) served as Prince of Novgorod ( 1236  52 ), Grand Prince of Kiev ( 1236 - 52 ) and Grand Prince of Vladimir ( 1252  63 ) during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus ' history . A duke ( male ) ( British ___MASK24___ : or American ___MASK24___ : ) or duchess ( female ) can either be a monarch ruling over a duchy or a member of the nobility , historically of highest rank below the monarch . The title comes from French " duc ", itself from the Latin " dux ", ' leader ', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank ( particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin ), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province . The Princes Shuysky (  ) is a Rurikid Princely ___MASK72___ of former boyars descending from Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Vladimir - Suzdal and Prince Andrey Yaroslavich , brother to Alexander Nevsky . Their name is derived from the town of Shuya , of which they gained ownership in 1403 . The ___MASK72___ briefly reached the ___MASK27___ throne in the person of Vasili IV ( 1606 - 1610 ) . A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone ' s ___MASK67___ in certain contexts . It ___MASK32___ signify either veneration , an official position or a professional or academic qualification . In some languages , titles ___MASK32___ be inserted before a last ___MASK67___ ( for example , " Graf " in German , Cardinal in Catholic usage or clerical titles such as Archbishop ). Some titles are hereditary . Grand Prince of Kiev ( sometimes Grand Duke of Kiev ) was the title of the Kievan prince and the ruler of Kievan ___MASK78___ from the 10th to 13th centuries . In the 13th century , Kiev became an appanage principality first of the Grand Prince of Vladimir and the Golden Horde governors , and later was taken over by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . The Golden Horde (" Altan Ordn uls " " Altn Urda ") was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the ___MASK62___ and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol ___MASK50___ . With the fragmentation of the Mongol ___MASK50___ after 1259 it became a functionally separate khanate . It is also known as the Kipchak Khanate or as the Ulus of Jochi . A prince is a male ruler , monarch , or member of a monarch ' s or former monarch ' s ___MASK72___ . " Prince " is also a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states . The feminine equivalent is a princess . The ___MASK24___ word derives , via the French word " prince ", from the Latin noun " princeps ", from " primus " ( first ) + " capio " ( to seize ), meaning " the chief , most distinguished , ruler , prince ". The monarchic title of grand duke ( feminine : grand duchess ) ranked in ___MASK65___ of precedence below emperor and king , and above that of sovereign prince and sovereign duke . It is or was used in some independent nations or states in Europe , particularly : Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest ___MASK58___ of Ukraine , located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River . The population in July 2015 was ( though higher estimated numbers have been cited in the press ), making Kiev the 7th most populous ___MASK58___ in Europe . Vladimir - Suzdal (" Vladimirsko - Suzdal ' skaya "), formally known as the Grand Duchy of Vladimir ( 1157  1331 ) (" Vladimiro - Suzdal ' skoye knyazhestvo "), was one of the major principalities that succeeded Kievan ___MASK78___ in the late 12th century , centered in Vladimir - on - Klyazma . With time the principality grew into a grand duchy divided into several smaller principalities . After being conquered by the Mongol ___MASK50___ , the principality became a self - governed state headed by its own nobility . A governorship of principality , however , was prescribed by a Khan declaration ( jarlig ) issued from the Golden Horde to a noble family of any of smaller principalities . The Prince of Novgorod (" knyaz novgorodskii ") was the chief executive of Novgorod the Great . ___MASK90___ was originally an appointed one until the late eleventh or early twelfth century , then became something of an elective one until the fourteenth century , after which the Prince of Vladimir ( who was almost always the Prince of Moscow ) was almost invariably the Prince of Novgorod as well . The Mongol ___MASK50___ ( Mongolian : " Mongolyn Ezent Güren " ; Mongolian Cyrillic :    also (" Horde ") in Russian chronicles ) existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land ___MASK50___ in history . Originating in the steppes of Central Asia , the Mongol ___MASK50___ eventually stretched from Central Europe to the Sea of Japan , extending northwards into Siberia , eastwards and southwards into the Indian subcontinent , Indochina , and the Iranian plateau , and westwards as far as the Levant and Arabia . Kievan ___MASK78___ (, ) was a loose federation of East Slavic tribes in Europe from the late 9th to the mid - 13th century , under the reign of the ___MASK66___ . The modern peoples of Belarus , Ukraine , and Russia all claim Kievan ___MASK78___ as their cultural ancestors .