With rulers named "the terrible" and "the great," this was the last absolute monarchy in Europe. Name that 200-year-old tsarist empire.

The Russian Empire came to a dramatic close when the Romanov family was executed in the 20th century, making it the last absolute monarchy in Europe. It was also one of Europe's "five great powers," covering 15 percent of the Earth's land (9.15 million square miles) and home to 9 percent of the global population (176.4 million people). Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible are just two of the tsars that reigned, with Peter expanding the Russian Empire and inspiring a cultural revolution, while Ivan remains one of the most cruel and violent leaders in Russian history.

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