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Quoting the much-maligned Wikipedia: I'm aware that the Cossacks weren't major fans of the Turks, but for the sake of a thought exercise, let's suppose that the Cossack Hetmanate becomes a Turkish vassal without too much trouble. What are the effects on Ukraine's and Russia's developments as...

Assuming Sigismund II Augustus has a son or two and Russia goes through the Time of Troubles like IOTL, could a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty win the support of enough Russian boyars to become Tsar? IIRC Wladyslaw Vasa had at least a few supporters IOTL, but Sigismund III's...

Archduke Charles (1540-1590), son of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, may not be that important himself, but his descendants played important role in history-Charles was father of Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of Spain and two Queens of Poland. So what happens if he is either childless or none of his...

I mean Hans (1545-1622) son of Christian III of Denmark. Could he end as Polish king and how would it impact Denmark? His brother Magnus asked for hand of Sigismund Augustus' sister Anna IOTL, but was rejected by SA after he requested several castles in Livonia as Anna's dowry, and by Anna...

While Habsburg on the throne does not need to mean, that internal situation of PLC is drastically different (although to some degree it certainly would) foreign policy of PLC and its neighbors would certainly change grom the very beginning of Habsburg rule (which must start early after creation...

Johan's sister Cecilia lived to her late 80s, so there certainly was potential for longevity in House of Vasa. Lets say, that Johan also happened to have iron health, and lives to age 82, thus he dies in 1619. Say, that his children, at least legitimate ones, are like IOTL (so at the time he...

Eleonore of Austria, daughter of HRE Ferdinand III and sister of Leopold I, was Queen of Poland as wife of Michał Wiśniowiecki and then Duchess of Lorraine as wife of Charles of Lorraine. After her first husband died there were plans to marry her to his successor Jan Sobieski, who was urged to...

Prussia loses the Seven Years' War and is practically dismembered. Silesia goes to the Habsburgs, Cottbus to Saxony, much of Pommerania with Stettin to Sweden and East Prussia to Russia, who trades it for Kurland&Semigalia with the PLC. In such circumstances, what could await the PLC in the...

Henry the Younger (1489-1568) Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in February 1556 married Sophia Jagiellon, sister of Polish king Sigismund Augustus, in desperate attempt to provide his lands with Catholic heir. His two older sons-staunch Catholics, were killed in Battle of Sievershausen, while his...

Philip William (1615-1690) Duke of Neuburg and later Elector Palatine was married twice, from his first marriage with Anna Catherine Constance Vasa he had one son, who was born on 18 July 1645 and died the same day. Say that their son (lets call him Sigismund Wolfgang) is healthy and lives to...

So what need to happen for GNW to look like it was expected by Danish-Saxon-Russian coalition? Danes, Saxons and Russians viewed Sweden as easy prey, ruled by young, unexperienced ruler and they were very, very wrong. Swedish king happened to be military genius (like many of his predecessors)...

Charles of Lorraine was, alongside Philip William of Neuburg, the most likely candidate to win 1669 royal election in PLC before unexcepted candidature of 'native' candidate (Wiśniowiecki) gainrd popularity. So say, that Michał Wiśniowiecki dies just before being elected from food poisoning...

Battle of Warsaw was one of the biggest battles of Deluge, fought 28-30 July 1656. It ended in Swedish-Brandenburgian victory, say that this fact is not changed in TTL, but despite victory both Sweden and Brandenburg lost their leaders (Charles X really was wounded in that battle, so making his...

When scouting the battlefield only with his aide, Gustav Adolf ran into three banners of Polish cavalry and was saved only by quick action of his nearby escort, which was defeated though, and Poles chased him all the way into Swedish camp. Now what if Poles get more lucky, and some random shot...

That is kind of challenge, as it is not one of these "it almost happened IOTL" scenarious, but still propability is bigger than 0% and time travel or UFO landing is not required for IT to happen. Of course, Romanov PLC is easily doable with late 18th POD (for example Konstantin Pavlovich...

Ok, the idea here is make a scenario where the Commonwealth survives WITHOUT being a vassal of any country and with a PoD in the 18th century

Personal union between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wasn't easy to maintain. No surprise it ended with disaster. Catholic King of Sweden residing on the wrong side of Baltic, with treacherous, power hungry uncle as regent, had very little chance to keep both crowns. So what if such union never...

Anna Vasa, daughter of John III of Sweden, sister of Sigismund Vasa, wanted to marry her cousin Gustaf Brahe, but match was opposed by her brother, who wanted someone higher born for his only sister (worth to note: Gustaf's niece Ebba Brahe also was in love with another Vasa-Anna's first cousin...

Anna Katarzyna Konstancja was only daughter of Zygmunt III, who survived to adulthood, but she wasn't very helthly. Death of her mother in 1631 followed by death of father one year later likely had negative impact on her health, so say death of Queen Constance is delayed few years and Anna's...

Inspired by discussion about Frederick Augustus of Saxony remaining Protestant. What about other option-member of House of Hohenzollern replaces him. So Frederick, OTL first King of Prussia, is as capable as ruler of Brandenburg as IOTL, but his physicall health is worse. He dies earlier (in...