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Wouldn't she be an obvious candidate to an early marriage to Feodor II, the son of Boris Godunov?

Probably. IOTL when Pedro I abdicated in 1831 (and no one was really expecting for him to do it) it took a while before Brigadier Francisco de Lima e Silva, who was with the crowd in front of the palace, started to yell "long live Pedro II". If someone started to yell "long live the Republic"...

Just other doubt: the very nomination of a regent wouldn't depend on the approval of the Estates General in this case?

Just an idea: Louis XVI has a hunting accident or something like that and dies sometime between the election of the Estates General of 1789 and their meeting on 5th May 1789 (let's say he dies in the last week of April that year). What could happen after that? Would the Estates General still...

I'm not so sure about that. Ademar was above all an oportunist. He OTL oscilated from fervent Getulist to rabid antileftist as long as he believed it would help him politically. In more modern terms he was an amalgamation of Maluf and Ciro Gomes with some flavor of Roberto Jefferson in the mix...

Sorry, but I think it's a false dicotomy here. The Nazi party had antisemitism as one of his original tenets, and while homophobia was quite a widespread feelling at the time, crossing political lines, Nazism especially included gays in the list of groups of individual who were excluded from the...

The problem is, how do you retire a man like Vargas? Tou probably need to kill him in order to not have him running for president again. And what would he do, live the rest of his days in the exile of Fazenda Itu? I've been there in that godforsaken place, and if I had to live there I would...

I'm really not sure about it. While Integralism was antisemitic (mostly due to the influence of Gustavo Cardoso), the other leaders, especially Salgado himself, believed that Integralism was the means to create a "Brazilian race", and that it would be achieved by miscigenation. While there were...

Britain already was buying cotton from other sources like Egypt at that time, and clearly even Brazilian production was way bigger than Paraguay's. It doesn't really make sense.

I fail to see how cotton could have had any influence in the Paraguay war. At the time it wasn't planted in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Only Brazil produced a little, mostly in the Northern provinces (especially Maranhão).

Doratioto's book has a version in Spanish published by Emecé Argentina, but I don't know how available it is. Menezes' I believe there is only in Portuguese, but for a Spanish speaker it's not much difficult to understand with the help with a translator :-)

The problem with this idea of Britain being the "villain"who wanted to destroy Paraguay for being a threat against British interest in the Plata is that it comes from authors like Júlio José Chiavenatto and Leon Pomer, who based their books more on their biases than on primary sources. These...

But they couldn't hold it. Anyone controlling Peru or Argentina would have much easier access and would simply block any power Brazil could try to project there. And the logistics where a nightmare. Just as an example: when the deputy governor of the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso invaded...

Well, quite a few, actually, at least before the great European immigration from the 1890's. They were certainly not "numerous", - and of course, the great majority of blacks were extremely poor and lived in rural areas - but there was an influent mixed race and black urban middle class in...

If I'm not mistaken, Jim Crow could only be practised in the USA because there were already policies regarding the separation of blacks and whites and enforcing the "whiteness" of population before it (the one drop rules). It's very hard to pull it off in Brazil since so much of the elite had...

The first strong effect would probably be already during the Second Coalition War. Would Russia even send troops to Italy and Switzerland considering that they still have an unreliable Poland just "next door"?

Would he try to raise a new army and get "revenge" from Russia? I can't see Charles simply accepting to spend the rest of his days quietly ruling from Stockholm. An idea: could Peter try to include in a "ransom" agreement a marriage between Charles and someone related to Russian allies? And who...

As it says above: what would be the consequences for Sweden, Russia and the Great Northern War if Charles XII, instead of fleeing the battlefield and going into exile in the Ottoman Empire, is: a) killed during the battle; b) captured with other high ranking Swedes?

I think you mean the wife of his heir (Theodore's wife is dead). But IOTL both the Duke of Parma and the king of Naples were married to daughters of Maria Theresa, and it didn't convince Austria of supporting them in their conflict with the Pope. If being "in laws" of the Habsburgs didn't help...

The Wittelsbachs. Sophia of Hanover was the youngest daughter among 13 children of Elizabeth Stuart. Just have more of them survive, or not to convert to Catholicism, and then you could have easily have them on the throne. But my favorite is Henriette Marie: have she and her husband survive and...