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(Inspired by a dream I once had)

OTL, the Russian tzars portrayed themselves as successors to the Byzantine and Roman empires and styled Moscow as the 'Third Rome'.

Your challenge, should you choose to except it, is to have the Rus rulers to be griped by pharaonism, resulting in them portraying themselves as successors of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs while proclaiming Russia to 'Egypt Reborn' instead of it being the 'Third Rome'.
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