russian empire

Lets say that for some reason America is content with staying on its own continent and leaving the affairs of Europe to the Entente and the Germans. What would be the repercussions of this on both America and the rest of the world? Would France fall to mass mutiny? Would Germany emerge more...

With a POD from 1867 to 1914, get Russia to repurchase Alaska from America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm–Hoffmann_affair What if the Grimm-Hoffmann affair had succeeded in crafting a peace deal? - Could Russia avoid the revolution? - How would the western theater of WW1 be affected by this peace deal? - What would this peace deal possibly or likely decide? (as...

How could the Russian Tsardom achive a military victory against the central powers in WW1? What would be the consequences of a Russian victory? Some things that might be affedted listed below. - Internal consequences in Russian empire - Cultural changes - Demographic changes - Changes in...

Alright, the backstory is that Kazakh Khanate was one of the successor states to the Mongol Empire. It was founded in the mid 1400's and was a powerful nomadic empire in Eurasia. Unfortunately, it had a rival in the east that was also part of former Mongol Empire which was called the Dzungar...

We've had a couple of WIs and timelines in the past about quick CP victories, all of which eventually begin to turn towards the matter of the post war peace in the event of a quick victory where the winner is still more or less intact, but I can't really recall the opposite - what would the...

PART I Chapter I- The Judgement of the Great Tsar Nikolai Ashinov sits impatiently. Sitting on a chair inside the Gatchina palace waiting to have an audience with the great Romanov. He had long been fascinated with the land of Abyssinia and believed it one of the greatest lands of...

I for one like to imagine a world without WWI, and I also hope of making a TL about this one day. Over to topic, one idea I've toyed with is Finland somehow becoming independent from the Russian Empire, but then I realised that that would likely encourage other minorities like the Poles...

So I had an ambitious idea to write my first timeline on this site, and I need some help. I really wanted to do one on A Russian Ethiopia and had a particular idea in mind. This was the timeline I would be basing it off of...

Ante Rebellum is an alternate history timeline written by a group of friends intended for a WIP Hearts of Iron IV mod of the same name. Ante Rebellum's timeline diverges from ours in 1905, where the Russian-Japanese war destabilizes the Russian empire into a civil war that eventually causes the...

I've tried to come up with an overpowered, and pretty much indestructible alliance, and I came up with the Russo-Turkish alliance. There have been discussions in other threads, referring to the alliance as the "Juggernaut" Is it possible? It can be anytime from the Ottoman, and Russian birth...

The Pale of Settlement was the act by Catherine the Great after the Second Partition of Poland, Russia inherited a huge Jewish population. Catherine didn't want them to be spread through the empire and forced Russian Jews to live inside the decree of the Pale of Settlement...

Since 1651, the Persians, and Russians fought wars against each other for control in the Caucasus. But ever since 1722, the Persians lost more and more land in the Caucasus, and influence there. The Treaty of Turkmenchay was a national failure for the Persians, losing a ton of Caucasian land...

Lets assume, that before or with 1st January 1917 there's a peace treaty signed between the german empire and the russian empire. Conditions : 1 billion Goldmarks reparations (or however named) to be payed over a 10 years period Payment in "goods" as well as "assets" (i.e...

Russia, as embodied by the Tsardom of Russia, began looking partially like modern-Russia in the end of the Seventeenth Century. What if the Russian Empire rose a few centuries before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia See the above for some idea.

If we exclude the Roman or Byzantine Empires, which other historical country has best claim to being the successor of the Roman Empire? Options (multiple choice allowed) Russian Empire (By inheriting the religion of the Byzantine Empire and intermarrying into its ruling dynasty, as well as...

So as we know the Seminal tragedy leading up to World war I was a domino effect that would change the world. But what isn't so discussed, is how could we have an isolated conflict between only a few major powers of Europe, that goes not go global. POD So Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, and...

So we know the Qing empire was the "Sick man of Asia" and Japan took the title of the Asian Power after the First Sino-Japanese war. Japan would later win the Russo-Japanese war in 1905, defeating a major western power. Now One thing when learning about the Russo-Japanese war, was why didn't...

So as we know the Seminal tragedy leading up to World war I was a domino effect that would change the world. But what isn't so discussed, is how could we have an isolated conflict between only a few major powers of Europe, that goes not go global. POD So Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, and...

What if Nicholas II had married Hélène of Orléans? , What changes would an empress raised by the French Liberals bring to Russia? Will it help the Romanovs not have hemophilia carriers for the future? And another thing, As the Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Fedorovna would achieve this...