Well, hello, AH.com. Having gotten back to my original TLIAD(The 1827 Shuffle, which can be viewed
here, for those curious), I've been thinking about some of my potential future projects. And, one of them is going to be a Russia wank.
Which leads to my question for this thread. As it says on the tin, what might be the best initial POD, for the largest possible Russia wank, that may or may not stretch plausibility to a degree, but isn't ASB(Gurkani Alam had a huge Russia, but it was kinda on the ASBish side, with not just a Russian Japan, but with a huge *Alaska, too.....no offense meant to Tony Jones, though, I still really liked that TL.)?
I would honestly prefer the POD to be after the OTL formation of the Russian Empire in 1721 but I can go back a little(to as early as about 1600 or so) if needed.