How can an honest Tsar end up on the throne? Only through revolution and civil war. And that won't lead to a stronger country. But coming to power through democratic means is realistic. All people just need to come out and demand complete transparency in the elections. Shooting and deceiving the people who have gathered in the square is suicide. Even our idiotic government won't go for that. And then – you can put a Tsar on the throne (just not a Romanov, better Shaimiev or Tuleev. Or Lukashenko). But only a federal empire, with broad autonomy. And with Soviets.
That wouldn't last a month; wars and schism would begin!