I tried posting this in the Help Forum, but nobody responded. Maybe if I post it here I will have more luck.
In an ATL where Tsar Alexander II is not assassinated in 1881, and lives until 1899, who would succeed him upon his death?
His eldest surviving son at the time would have been Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich.
But there are surviving children of the Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich (the OTL Tsar Alexander III, who died in 1894), including, of course, his eldest son, the Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich (the OTL Tsar Nicholas II).
So does Vladimir get the throne, as the eldest surviving son of Alexander II, or does Nicholas get it, as the heir of a line which is senior to that of Vladimir, even though Alexander III never ruled in the ATL?
In an ATL where Tsar Alexander II is not assassinated in 1881, and lives until 1899, who would succeed him upon his death?
His eldest surviving son at the time would have been Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich.
But there are surviving children of the Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich (the OTL Tsar Alexander III, who died in 1894), including, of course, his eldest son, the Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich (the OTL Tsar Nicholas II).
So does Vladimir get the throne, as the eldest surviving son of Alexander II, or does Nicholas get it, as the heir of a line which is senior to that of Vladimir, even though Alexander III never ruled in the ATL?