Challenge: Make something different to rule Russia then the Tsar!

Hey, it's me, again, and I have an Alt-history challenge for you guys!

Make another entity rule Russia then the tsar.

Which entity it is, is whole upon you guys.

The POD is as far back as 1302, the year of the battle of the Golden Spurs.
 
Not sure if it counts, but one of my timelines involves Russian states never uniting into one great empire. So yeah, Russia remains more of a geographic term and politically, there are many "Russias". After a dictator seizes power in one of the more powerful principalities and starts what is basically a fascist regime, he decides to unite his country with his allies and then gradually conquer outlying territories to form the Russian Empire that never was. That's when he also starts using the title "Tsar", inspired by the Roman and Byzantine emperors and Bulgarian tsars of old. Due to the in-universe connotations with the regime, the word "tsar" takes on a radically different meaning, one akin to the OTL "Duce" or "Führer". Similarly, "tsarist" becomes the ATL equivalent of "fascist". As for the fates of the Russias ITTL : They never really unite completely, but they do form a roughly EU-like or NAFTA-like organization in the second half of the 20th century. And despite some of them having been taken over by dictatorships at some points in their modern history, the 20th century Russias are a lot better off than OTL Russia was at the same time. They are also notably more democratic.


Also, another one of my timelines has a stalemated RCW that balkanizes Russia into White and Red territories with "provisional governments" that last for decades. Including the title of "Supreme Ruler and Commander-in-Chief" among the Belogvardeyan (White Russian) forces - admiral Kolchak isn't the only holder of the title. ;) In a move reminescent of Horthy's "regency in the name of the Habsburgs" over interwar Hungary, this political post remains occupied well into the late 20th century. As for the Reds, due to early Soviet history turning completely different in the ATL
 
Maybe a corruption of Kaiser (both it and Tsar come from Casesar, so I could see them adopting a variant)?

Maybe staying with the Mongol styling and using Khagan, or maybe belnding the two for something like Khagotsar.
 
I don't think you a Theocratic Russia by virtue, of Orthodox clergy not having the temporal power that Catholic clergy, unless I am mistaken. I don't know about not having a Tsar, the legacy of Rome for both the East and West was prestigious. The only possible alternative Is a largely Mongol influenced Russian state and culture, maybe have all of the Russian communities suffer instead of the north remaining untouched with a hybrid Russo-Mongolian culture rising.
 
Not sure if it counts, but one of my timelines involves Russian states never uniting into one great empire. So yeah, Russia remains more of a geographic term and politically, there are many "Russias". After a dictator seizes power in one of the more powerful principalities and starts what is basically a fascist regime, he decides to unite his country with his allies and then gradually conquer outlying territories to form the Russian Empire that never was. That's when he also starts using the title "Tsar", inspired by the Roman and Byzantine emperors and Bulgarian tsars of old. Due to the in-universe connotations with the regime, the word "tsar" takes on a radically different meaning, one akin to the OTL "Duce" or "Führer". Similarly, "tsarist" becomes the ATL equivalent of "fascist". As for the fates of the Russias ITTL : They never really unite completely, but they do form a roughly EU-like or NAFTA-like organization in the second half of the 20th century. And despite some of them having been taken over by dictatorships at some points in their modern history, the 20th century Russias are a lot better off than OTL Russia was at the same time. They are also notably more democratic.


Also, another one of my timelines has a stalemated RCW that balkanizes Russia into White and Red territories with "provisional governments" that last for decades. Including the title of "Supreme Ruler and Commander-in-Chief" among the Belogvardeyan (White Russian) forces - admiral Kolchak isn't the only holder of the title. ;) In a move reminescent of Horthy's "regency in the name of the Habsburgs" over interwar Hungary, this political post remains occupied well into the late 20th century. As for the Reds, due to early Soviet history turning completely different in the ATL

Or these Russias form entity similar to HRE where ruler is elected by these (sub)entities.
 
I don't think you a Theocratic Russia by virtue, of Orthodox clergy not having the temporal power that Catholic clergy, unless I am mistaken .

You would have to change the history and possibly the doctrine of the Orthodox Church but with some PODs I think it is possible over time.
 
The early Russ convert to Islam rather than to Christianity: In later years we have, for example, 'Mohammed IV, Caliph of All The Russias'.
 
You would have to change the history and possibly the doctrine of the Orthodox Church but with some PODs I think it is possible over time.

Black Clergy DID own land, after all, nobles DID go into the monastic class, and at least Montenegro had a prince-bishop.

But yes, nothing like Catholic bishops owning huge feudal estates.
 
Hey, it's me, again, and I have an Alt-history challenge for you guys!

Make another entity rule Russia then the tsar.

Which entity it is, is whole upon you guys.

The POD is as far back as 1302, the year of the battle of the Golden Spurs.

Well, it's OTL, namely General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
 
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