I've been hearing that the Russians offered the peninsula along with Alaska, but Seward refused. Is there any basis to that at all in reality? And if he really was offered, could he have been persuaded to go through with it? And if he wasn't offered, then are all of those timelines where the U.S. magically buys land in Siberia and Asian parts of Russia completely false?
Interestingly enough, in 1922, some American magnate did want to buy Kamchatka from Lenin. But that's for another forum.