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The assassination of Archduke Frank Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary at the hands of the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip was the spark that kicked off the most ruinous war to date. While many geopolitical factors were already in motion, and to some degree, unavoidable, to lead the great...

Ever since Peter I rights of the Russian serfs continuously degraded and eventually boiled over in 1773 when Yemelyan Pugachev claimed to be the deposed Peter III and promised land redistribution for the peasantry. What if he succeeded? On the one hand, he seemed to be genuinely intending to...

In original timeline, during the Time of Troubles in Russia after the extinction of the Rurikid Dynasty, a man claiming to be the lost son of Ivan the Terrible, Dmitriy Ivanovich (Who died when he was eight years old) came to the throne thanks to military assistance from the Polish-Lithuanian...

In 1478 the duchy of Moscow conquered Novgorod and established the tsardom of Russia in 1547. During the middle ages however, there were a lot of states to Novgorod's south. Including but not limited too: Kiev, Chernigov, Pereyaslavl, Volhynia, Halych, Polotsk, Smolensk, and Ryazan. Was there...

Thinking of using this as a plot for a future TL. Could Nicholas II fund anti-Soviet movements for the crown perhaps, who could his son and daughters marry? What effect would this have on European history?

Hello everyone on this schedule After some thought on the timeline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, I decided to rewrite it due to some errors and will write a new timeline of Austria instead. Also because I found out that it was in the wrong place in the forum where it was supposed to be in a...

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...

Basically as the tin says, are there any potential impacts of Czar Alexander I having Louise of Mecklenburg-Sterlitz (OTL Queen Consort of Prussia) as his wife instead of Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden). While Alexander and Elizabeth loved each other at first, they did grow out of love...

He died November 1894, but what if he lived to 1914? I'm no expert on Alexander III but from everything I've read on him he seems to be atleast competent. Seems like the entire Russian monarchy went downhill when he died and his incredibly ill prepared son took over. So if he lives another 20...

Let’s say by dumb luck and some help with alien space bats, Alexei Nickolaevick, heir apparent to Russia, never contacts hemophilia and remains a healthy boy. I’m also thinking of a possible TL for this scenario so it would be cool if you could give me some ideas.

It's a historic event that is basically legend at this point. The Russian royal family was hated, and the Tsar hated his job, and his family carried a genetic disease that could destroy their whole lineage. However, in 1905, during his sleep, he had a vision of Jesus, who said that he needed to...

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...

Of the twenty Romanov Tsars five died violent deaths (Ivan VI, Peter III, Paul I, Alexander II, and Nicholas II). Star Alexander III The Tsar of All The Russias also known as Tsar liberator, was assassinated by a bomb on March 13 (Old Style Date March 1), 1881 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Born...

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...

What if the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Russian Empire formed a stable alliance before WW1? Reforming the League of Three Emperors, they come to an agreement on the Balkans, Baltic, and Black Sea, redirecting their ambitions outward at the expense of Romania, Serbia, the...

A side discusion from this thread really merits a thread of its own. During the reign of Ivan IV of Russia, frequently known as Ivan the Terrible, there was Turco-Mongol Chingisid prince who was a general in the Tsars army and had converted to Orthodoxy. Simeon Bekbulatovich so impressed Ivan...

IOTL, there was a significant movement within parts of Russia's elite to put Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich as Tsar of Russia, by deposing his more reactionary brother, Nicholas, in an armed uprising, now known as the Decembrist Revolt. The revolt, however, mostly foundered, because Konstantin...

As the title says, Imperial Russia survives into modern day whether it remained as a First-World country or Second-world state. It can be constitutional or absolute rule. The survival of Russia under the Tsarist regime will definitely butterfly Communism in absence of Soviet Union. How would...

ROUGH TIMELINE DRAFT: POD - ~ early 1870's The Czar uses their power to force industrialize the country during the decade, then follows by spending the latter '70s and '80s to militarize the country. ~1885: Russia now industrialized and with a better developed military begins giving into workers...

The Willy-Nicky telegrams were a series of personal communications between cousins (first cousins via Alexandra Feodorovna, 3rd via Paul I of Russia) Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II on the eve of WWI. They were rather friendly, and each was accustomed to calling the other "Willy" or...