Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as a full-scale Russian emperor by state TV as he grows even more delusional.
Rossiya 1 channel likened the Russian president to last royal Tsar Nicholas II - but said the ex-KGB spy was better.
The bizarre portrayal came after Putin, 70, accused the West of nuclear blackmail.
He made the accusation despite personally threatening to unleash Armageddon on the West.
Speaking on the Kremlin-controlled Rossiya 1 TV station, Yevgeny Satanovsky, compared Putin to the former Tsar.
Satanovsky, the president of the Moscow Institute of the Middle East, said: "[Beyond the West] is a world of authoritarian electorates.
“A world of people who are the real leaders of their countries… Putin, Xi, Modi, Erdogan, Arab monarchs, Arab authoritarian leaders of local military juntas.
“This is the kind of world that has kept the idea that ‘I am the sultan here in my country’, like Erdogan, right?
“Putin… performs the function of the Emperor of All Russia.”
This is the title of the old Romanov tsars who ruled Russia until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
“Well, excuse me, he does it well,” said Satanovsky.
"I'm quite satisfied with that - much more than I would have been with [last tsar] Nicholas II, whom everyone remembers.”
Images shared on social media showed Putin mocked up as the Emperor of All Russia.
The last tsar was executed with close members of his royal family in 1918.
“[Putin] still manages to do without repression,” claimed hardline pundit Satanovsky, a day after the Kremlin’s own ‘goddaughter’ Ksenia Sobchak fled into exile fearing arrest and a jail sentence of up to 15 years.
“I don't understand how he manages to do this at all,” Satanovsky said.
“But still, you can call him whatever type of dictator you want.
“It is a world of people responsible for their countries and the people who live there.
“Full stop.”
Putin was protecting “traditional values”, along with his Orthodox, Muslim and atheist supporters, said Satanovsky.
“Traditional values are the same for all of us,” he added.
“I'm an atheist, and [Chechen leader Ramzan] Kadyrov is a devout Muslim.
“And His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is a deeply believing Orthodox….
“We need to build a decent life for people in our own country.
“Even though Kadyrov uses words about Jihad [in Ukraine ], or it's a jihad for him…. but the feeling is exactly the same.
“I'm not at all ready to live in a world where children change genders without parental consent.
“A child's head will be messed up or he'll be told what he can be if he wants to be.”
