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Onetime residents of Russia's Winter Palace (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tsars

(Other definitions for tsars that I've seen before include "Old monarchs" , "Old Russian rulers" , "Russian emperors" , "Old Russia's rulers" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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