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You challenge, should you accept it, is to make Russia to be generally more eager to expand to the west compared to OTL, enough so that the Russia would have at least reached Pomerania by TTL's 1800. PoD to be used must be no earlier than the OTL time of death of Ivan the Terrible, anything un-ASBish that gives Russia actual opportunity to push westward. No involvement of plagues, natural disasters or any such are allowed in the making unless it actually occurred IOTL. Bonus if you can make Russia already has Magdeburg by December 1800 !
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