I’ve been calling him Tsar Putin I for years now, apparently he sees himself as more of a Caesar type.
a group of Cossacks in St. Petersburg have gone a step further, erecting a statue of Putin in the form of a Roman emperor.
Boy is there egg on my face.
doubleplusundead 
The word Tsar is actually derived from Caesar.
I almost explained a joke.
I got the joke just fine: you thought he was one kind of autocratic tyrant, but he was actually a slightly different kind of autocratic tyrant.
I just like trivia.