Tsargrad

Tsarigrad or Tsargorod, also Czargrad and Tzargrad, is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

are rendered in several ways depending on the language, for instance: Tsargrad is an Old Church Slavonic translation of the Greek Βασιλὶς Πόλις.

The Russian leadership had no interest in the potential prestige to be gained from control of Constantinople to pass to another Orthodox country besides Russia itself.

[1]: 220 Though religious motives were less important to the leaders of the Soviet Union, the post-1917 government nonetheless inherited its predecessor's strategic interests in the Turkish Straits, hoping to gain access to global maritime shipping routes.

The Romance language Romanian borrowed the term as Țarigrad,[8] due to the long tradition of Church Slavonic in Romania, but it is an archaic usage now that has been replaced by Constantinopol and Istanbul.