AH Challenge: Empress Anastasia I

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.
 

BigBlueBox

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The Romanov throne was inherited on the principle of semi-Salic law, so a female couldn't inherit the throne unless all of the men in the dynasty were dead. You'd need to kill of Alexei (easy enough considering his Hemophilia), and all of Anastasia's older sisters. You'd also need to kill of Nikolai Nikolaevich. At this point, there would still be multiple men left to claim the throne. Maybe some White general(s) would start thinking that a woman would be more easy to manipulate, so they ignore the legitimate claimants and put Anastasia on the throne. But this action would probably result in the rise of a Russian equivalent to the Carlists.
 
I created that thread

D'oh! :oops:

However, why not just continue with that thread instead of making a new one?

At any rate, to make her a universally accepted Empress, you need to kill off a load of Romanovs first. Otherwise, she just becomes a pretender, with a lot of competition, with a more valid claim to the throne.
 
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