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Hate to break it to you bud, but most of Russia remained outside the direct rule of the Mongolian Empire....and pointing out that Muscovy was the most influential of the Russian regimes forced to nominal obedience does not actually benefit your argument in any way, because the Mongol successor state that "sat on the Volga" was destroyed five hundred years ago.
Here's where the term actually came from.
"The title Tsar is derived from the Latin title for the Roman emperors, Caesar.[2] In comparison to the corresponding Latin word "imperator", the Byzantine Greek term basileus was used differently depending on whether it was in a contemporary political context or in a historical or Biblical context. In the history of the Greek language, basileus had originally meant something like "potentate". It gradually approached the meaning of "king" in the Hellenistic Period, and it came to designate "emperor" after the inception in the Roman Empire. As a consequence, Byzantine sources continued to call the Biblical and ancient kings "basileus" even when that word had come to mean "emperor" when referring to contemporary monarchs (while it was never applied to Western European kings, whose title was transliterated from Latin "rex" as ῥήξ, or to other monarchs, for whom designations such as ἄρχων "leader", "chieftain" were used).
As the Greek "basileus" was consistently rendered as "tsar" in Slavonic translations of Greek texts, the dual meaning was transferred into Church Slavonic. Thus, "tsar" was not only used as an equivalent of Latin "imperator" (in reference to the rulers of the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and to native rulers) but was also used to refer to Biblical rulers and ancient kings."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar#Meaning_in_Slavic_languages
In case you forgot, bud, the Roman and Byzantine Empires were around long before the Mongols headed into Russia.
So your argument is even more laughable then previous thought.