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Technically this is both AHC and a plausibility check, but anyway.

The basis of this TL is that in the end Olga Nikolajevna becomes the Grand Duchess/Queen/Empress/Whatever of Finland, but not of Russia. I was thinking that Karl Gustav Emil Mannerheim smuggles her and her siblings away from the Russian revolutionaries. Alexei is meant to become the ruler, but his hemophilia proves fatal.

Now, I'm aware that such a thing happening in post-russification Finland is impossible (due to the sheer hatred towards Romanovs back then), so the PoD (if it exists), is somewhere in the 19th century (or earlier)

So far I am considering two possible PoDs
Either Three Emperors' League/Alliance survives longer, thus maybe preventing Russia from getting paranoid about the loyalty of the Finns
or
WW1 starts even earlier, preventing russification from happening in the first Place

Are there any other PoDs that might work? And what would happen once Olga takes the throne?
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