Chinese establish a Kingdom near Europe

What if one group of Chinese migrate enmasse to OTL Kalmykia and establish a Kingdom during the Mongol times and create a Kingdom after the Mongols are defeated, and this Kingdom expands to Crimea.
 

GarethC

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When you say "a group", do you mean small number who form a ruling elite that is still a small minority in population terms, or a migration so large as to displace the indigenous populace more or less entirely?
 
Maybe a Mongol ruler who is a complete Sinophile decides that he needs more Chinese people over in European Russia to help "civilize" various areas. Initially artisans and officials are selected to help govern, but later on larger immigration via the Silk Road occurs (maybe a famine occurs in China proper or something?) that establishes a viable populace. This Sino-Mongolian kingdom solidifies and becomes fully independent when the greater Mongol empire collapses. It affects significant cultural influence upon the nearby Russian state(s), which it eventually conquers or is conquered by.
 
Maybe a Mongol ruler who is a complete Sinophile decides that he needs more Chinese people over in European Russia to help "civilize" various areas. Initially artisans and officials are selected to help govern, but later on larger immigration via the Silk Road occurs (maybe a famine occurs in China proper or something?) that establishes a viable populace. This Sino-Mongolian kingdom solidifies and becomes fully independent when the greater Mongol empire collapses. It affects significant cultural influence upon the nearby Russian state(s), which it eventually conquers or is conquered by.

maybe it goes to the Volga river basin to expand and rise as the "True Golden Horde"...:D
 
Maybe a Mongol ruler who is a complete Sinophile decides that he needs more Chinese people over in European Russia to help "civilize" various areas. Initially artisans and officials are selected to help govern, but later on larger immigration via the Silk Road occurs (maybe a famine occurs in China proper or something?) that establishes a viable populace. This Sino-Mongolian kingdom solidifies and becomes fully independent when the greater Mongol empire collapses. It affects significant cultural influence upon the nearby Russian state(s), which it eventually conquers or is conquered by.

How would be its relationship with the Christian Countries in the East and Western Europe?
 
How would be its relationship with the Christian Countries in the East and Western Europe?

If it's conquered by the Russians, it would probably become Christian but perhaps stay "Oriental" Russian (like, imagine Russia without Peter's Westernization). If the Sino-Mongol establishment, with some Mongol form of Buddhism, gains dominance we might see it look something like the Ottoman Empire.

EDIT: And yeah, this empire would probably exist around the Volga river. It would be a much more southern and eastern state compared with OTL Russia.
 
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