russian empire

During the wars of Iranian Unification, the world looked at awe on the fragmentation of the Iranian plateau. Agha Mohammad Khan was the main center of the unification effort, taking land after land, and every battle, putting military experience under his belt. The Russians under Catherine The...

I got this a bit odd scenario, but let's say it is the year 1913, an event known as the Romanov Tercentenary begins with commencing the 300th anniversary of the ruling Romanov dynasty with the Imperial Family taking the tour of historic routes by Mikhail, the first Tsar of Russia. Nicholas...

Russian Tsars have a habit of coming up with ambitious plans that would shake the world. Tsar Paul Came up with a plan during the Napoleonic wars to send tens of thousands of French and Russian troops to British India, Alexander I had plans to bring Sweden into a Client Status with the Russian...

Howdy! This is a place to actually post and organize anything from my cover of Devon Moore's Great White South timeline. I have his permission to freely post my re-interpretation and further exploration of the setting he created. Not to say that this will simply be an update for that timeline, I...

During WWI, in the Eastern front, the Germans launched the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive in 1915 that resulted in an event known as the "Great Retreat" where the Russians fled Poland to establish a better defense around west Belarus and Ukraine. But what if they failed to create a defensive line in...

Russia's population today stands at just under 150 million people, but that's only after a very chaotic and violent 20th century for that country. Between the First World War, the Russian Civil War, oppression and famine under communist rule, and the Second World War, tens of millions of...

After asking this scenario before in this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/emperess-anastatia-of-russia.447325/#post-17282247 I decided to make my own timeline about Empress Anastasia I. All I ask is for people not to say this is ASB or impossible, but to leave helpful and...

The Challenge is to create a scenario in which, Anastasia Romanov escape to England, and have Tsarist Whites win the war, and have Anastasia become Empress Anastasia I. How that plays out and the aftermath is up to you.

Let's say that Nicholas II decides to break it's agreement with the west, and shortly before the Brusilov offensive he comes to the table with the germans and gives them the baltics, Ukraine and Poland, while the ottomans get Kars back. The germans now have a year to pacify Ukraine for it's...

It always wondered me why Persia didn't decide to go to war with Russia during the Crimean War to reverse the Turkmenchay. Seems like it would've been a safe bet considering they'd have the British, Ottomans, and French on their side, and they could have fielded at least a sizeable enough army...

Since I want to know more about Qianlong, I was wondering what his relations with the Russians were during his about 60-year reign. If anyone knows any details about his relations with the Russians, please let me know.

In an alternate scenario in 1917, the Children of Nicholas II escapes Russia to England. After the execution of the Emperor and his wife, Alexei dies in a accident because of his hemophilia. After morning the losses, Olga renounces the claim, Maria marries into the House of Windsor and Tatiana...

Let presume if Sweden won the Finnish War or at least joined on Napoleon side. What would be culture be like for Finland? https://sambiswas95.deviantart.com/art/Gustavian-Sweden-1850-660501952

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Central_Asia Speaking of The Great Game, i recommend to watch this awesome documentary: https://youtu.be/6a7bP49ehKQ , https://youtu.be/3Re4x0dizlM Assuming if the Russians were aware of...

So, the challenge here is to have the Kingdom of Sweden and the Tsardom of Russia or Muscovy get into a personal union, with a PoD after 1500 and before 1900. Seeming that Russia, for a time, had amicable relations with the Protestant duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, religion wouldn't be that big an...

There were a number of unsuccessful attempts on his life from 1866 onwards. What if any of them succeeded?

In 1917, British commanders in the Mesopotamian Campaign during ww1 were anxious about the fact that with the recent huge advance of the Russians in 1916 to the Ottomans in Erzurum, the Russians would attempt to take Baghdad. The Russians, in reality, had purposed a Spring plan of a...

What if the Russian won the Great Game? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Central_Asia Speaking of The Great Game, i recommend to watch this awesome documentary: https://youtu.be/6a7bP49ehKQ , https://youtu.be/3Re4x0dizlM...

Is there a way to get the Japanese to enter the Crimean war against Russia? The Perry expedition happened at the same time as the war's commencement, and is there any way for them to join it, and possibly get something out of it?

I've seen a few threads about how close the Ottomans were to a victory in 1877, and I wanted to pin down how close the Ottomans were to a victory in the war, and how you can alter it so the Ottomans were to win. Does anyone have an answer?