tsar vs Tsar

[David Powelstock]

This is precisely how I have been doing it, and I've had no complaints from
publishers or readers (only meaningful if these folks are, in fact, reading
what I write!).

-----Original Message-----
The Chicago Manual of Style indicates that titles should be capitalized when
they immediately precede a name; however, when they are in apposition (as
when there is a determiner or other modifier), they are lowercased.  This
would imply "Tsar Nikolai II," but "the last Russian tsar Nikolai II," or
"Nikolai II, the last tsar."  (I don't have the 15th edition; you can find
the reference in 7.15 and 7.22 of the 14th edition.)  My interpretation of
the Chicago Manual's rules for capitalizing adjectives is that words like
"tsarist," which are not derived from proper names, should be lowercased.
Cf. paragraphs. 7.46 and 7.47.

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