I am trying to find a pod that would lead to a group of Irish catholics immigrating to northern russia/scandanavia
I am really looking for a date and suitable location
My god! You want the Irish and the Russians to mix? those are the most alcoholic nations in the world! you could end up forming some ultra evil mega vodka/cider!
Be careful. This can easily become a vlad teppes
Why would the Irish want to colonize Northern Russia? Replacing the Volga Germans would make more sense or That Peter the great decides to throw out the Baltic germans that were relatively loyal to the Swedish Crown and settle the Irisih in their place.
My god! You want the Irish and the Russians to mix? those are the most alcoholic nations in the world! you could end up forming some ultra evil mega vodka/cider!
Be careful. This can easily become a vlad teppes
I know that the Russian tsars gave land to German settlers around the time frame you're looking at; perhaps they'd make a similar grant to a group of Irish settlers, if one showed up.
The area around Murmansk is not suitable for settlement before modern (~19th century, i.e. steam ships, rail - basically less weather dependent) logistics to bring in supplies. While the area around the White Sea (Arkhangelsk etc.) has a microclimate that allows growing some crops, this zone ends very fast further north. Without a steady supply from the south, anyone trying to live there will need to emulate Inuit way of life...
My idea was that they would go on to become a sort of grand duchy and then expand into Lapland during the finnish war
Also I was planning for them to build Murmansk earlier
This is for a TL that I am planning and if they settle in the Baltic then it stagnates as I already tried to make that work
As for the Volga Germans it again stagnates
Though both of these make more sense I was thinking along the lines of Peter the great sends them north because its a relatively empty place (Sami are their but the Russians don't care) and also because it's an easier way to bring that region under his control and out of the influence of the Swedish Empire
I was just wondering about how a North Russian Ireland would attract settlers as its not the most welcoming land and not really suited to the agriculture the Irish are used to.
Why do Baltic or Volga Irish ideas stagnate? Maybe we can help there.
How about their being settled in the Birobidzhan area, instead?