DBWI: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wins the Battle of Klushino

If some really fortunate strokes of lucks and geniuses presented themselves at the right time and routed the Russian army, I can see the winged hussars rounding up lots of captives and denying the Russians of fast regroup, from there on it's an easy way to Moscow, but actually taking the Russian crown is far harder than that, so the realistic best case scenario is getting his son propped up on the Russian throne, but more likely only getting some territorial concessions.

In any case, this Commonwealth would then be way more stable than the one we know, and likely at least last until the rise of nationalism, but then again, pan-slavism would do little damage outside of Baltic Lithuania since the better part of the Grand Duchy are Slavic anyway, on the other hand, they would have the perfect casus belli to acquire Bohemia and Carpathia and maybe, even be THE power in modern Europe.:cool:
 
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