Charles II marries Sophia of Hanover

To be honest, that would be second TL period that has Russian Tsar marry a Stroganova and the first one with this particular girl (speakin' of both Russian forum (fai.org.ru) and this one).
I saw Godunovs survival TL which used Elisabeth Stroganova (a cousin of Pelagia from junior branch) as a placeholder Tsarina in 1670ies-1680ies in a timeskip genealogy (author timeskipped to the end of 18th century from 1620ies and used fill-in genealogues of European houses to cover the time in between.
But Pelagia seems better. Her branch was richer (and would be even richer TTL).
In addition the problem with Elisabeth was with to whom her sister married (one of best friends of Tsarevich Feodor); if we presume Feodor & Alexei Jr. were roughly part of the same crowd of young men, it would be just boring "a friend recommends his in-law to the Tsarevich", without exploit of novelty WI of a Tsar married to merchant princess.
 
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To be honest, that would be second TL period that has Russian Tsar marry a Stroganova and the first one with this particular girl (speakin' of both Russian forum (fai.org.ru) and this one).
I saw Godunovs survival TL which used Elisabeth Stroganova (a cousin of Pelagia from junior branch) as a placeholder Tsarina in 1670ies-1680ies in a timeskip genealogy (author timeskipped to the end of 18th century from 1620ies and used fill-in genealogues of European houses to cover the time in between.
But Pelagia seems better. Her branch was richer (and would be even richer TTL).
In addition the problem with Elisabeth was with to whom her sister married (one of best friends of Tsarevich Feodor); if we presume Feodor & Alexei Jr. were roughly part of the same crowd of young men, it would be just boring "a friend recommends his in-law to the Tsarevich", without exploit of novelty WI of a Tsar married to merchant princess.

I'd love to see a Godunov survival TL, I'm not sure if its possible though (but that might just be hindsight talking) could you PM me a link to that TL, please?
 
fai.org.ru/forum/topic/43770-maksimilian-gabsburg-prinimaet-predlozhenie-vilenskogo-sezda/
To be honest, not male line Godunov survival, but successful betrothal of Leopold Habsburg (OTL ruler of Tyrol) & Xenia Godunova, and the whole TL is Habsburg wank. Muscovite Godunov-Habsburgs are top cherry of the pie.
The thing also ended up to be collateral Couronian wank, with Courland getting settler colony... in Argentina of all places (after me (Charles on that forum) persuading topicstarter that Couronian Australia, as he orignally wanted, was ASB).
 
Executive semi-absolutist monarchy.

Oratorio, actually, but yes. Though he'll be just 11 years old when his big bro is marrying Ms. Stroganova.
Their tutor, OTOH, me thinks, would have field day with celebratory odas.

Oh very interesting, that's going to be fun to explore
 
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