moscow

This subject has been plaguing my mind recently so I've decided to ask. The use of the anesthetic gas (from most sources I've read it was some sort of fentanyl derivative) was the cause of most of the casualties of the Moscow Hostage Crisis in 2002. What if the gas was never used? Would the...

what if Timur conquered Delhi sultanate, Ottoman Empire, Golden horde and Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt ? how would this affect history ? OTL Timur defeated ,Sacked and sent in to civil war all of them He could've easily conquered them by exploiting those civil wars this time does that and...

What if Kievan Rus decides against importing the Orthodox faith but instead opts to create its own ‘brand’ of heavily Russified/Slavified Christianity incorporating many indigenous pagan ideas? In other words a centralized but indigenous ‘Christianity’ with its roots deep in ‘Slavdom’ as...

I've been reading some threads on this forum on the August Coup, an attempted 1991 Soviet coup d'état. Communist hardliners tried to seize power from Gorbachev, President and General Secretary of the USSR. They opposed his reforms and the new union treaty, which decentralized a lot of power to...

Today, Moscow is Russia’s largest city and one of the most expensive cities in the world. As a capital of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation it has played a pivotal role in global affairs and was host to many important events; the cityscape changed drastically since the start of the...

Earlier this week, I was playing the Ottoman Empire in Empire Total War. I was at war with Russia over the Crimea. However, after defeating their army and taking Kiev, they still refused to accept peace. This prompted me to notice that Moscow was within reach. After thinking about it for a...

With a POD of 1453, you’r challenge is to have the Three Romes (Rome, Constantinople, and Moscow) be owned by a single empire all at the same time. Bonus points if this empire survives to the present day with the Three Romes inside it’s borders. So which countries would be the best cannidates...

I'm reading "From Defeat to Victory" about the Soviet 1944 offensives and in the section titled "German strategic mistakes" the author mentions several times the failure to target Moscow in 1941 and 1942. Though he acknowledges that prioritizing Moscow in either year would face major...

If the Germans had taken either Moscow or Stalingrad (or both), would Stalin have ordered a Second Great Purge of his officers once he learns of the fall of said cities due to his paranoia akin to what he did in the "Anglo/American-Nazi War"? If so, how much would the Soviet officer corp have...

So as you might know, the National Romanticism came to prominence in Russia in 1800s as a result of the Napoleonic Wars. Since these types of movements revered the local folk culture and traditions, some people in Russia took the idea to its natural conclusion and called for removal of "foreign"...

The russo-polish war of the early 17th century was sparked by conflicts emerging from the Time of Troubles, when Muscovy was suffering a dynastic succession war, and from a proposed dynastic union between the commonwealth and Muscovy, which only enticed political greed from both sides. The...