DBWI: No Muscovite Civil War

Say, Yaroslavl didn't fall to the republicans in 1871 due to a more rapid response by the Muscovites. The Republican movement would be crushed in its infancy, before it ever gathered much public support, much less incite a civil war. The obvious repercussions of this would be that the Moscow Republican, and by extension, Russian Nationalist, movements would be crushed, or at least severely crippled. Russian Unification would be effectively derailed. Realistically, how much longer could the monarchy last, being ravaged by famine and facing constant pressure from the Swedes?
 
The biggest impact of the Muscovite rebellion was its symbolism. Although Muscovy was only one of the seven Russian grand ducharies it was by far the largest and most powerful given its conquests of Kazan and Vladmir. Seeing its monarch fall, and be replaced by a republican government spurred on likeminded revolutionaries from Novograd to Kharkov. It was hardly the most important battle for the wars of Russian unification, but it was the one that started the movement.
 
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