Failure to assassinate Alexander II in 1881

Also he didn't died from bronchitis.

In the age of 17 years he has fallen from a horse and has damaged a backbone. Under other version, during game with his cousins he has hurted by a sharp corner of marble furniture. Neither parents, nor doctors have not given then to this fact of due attention.

But in 1865 in Italy he felt a sharp pain in a back. In the field of a backbone there was a greater tumour. Doctors diagnose was "an aposteme in back muscles ". Illness progressed, but doctors could not come to a common opinion about its reasons. In April the condition of the patient has sharply worsened, Nikolay began to complain about eyes pain and nausea. Later he has died. At thanatopsy it was found out, that at it was ostitis vertebrae which has led to death from a tubercular meningitis.
 
Awesome POD.

Alexander II was much more pro-German than his son. Perhaps the entente does not form so quickly. A reasonably democratic Duma might well have helped forestall the later revolutions. I could see a tri-party system; Crown Loyalists, Liberals and Social Democrats.

The real danger is Alexander III. OTl he was very very conservative even before his father's death. Actually the best POD would be to have Alexander's first son (who I think was named Nicholas) survive. He died very suddenly and unexpectedly, I think of TB. You ould have him become very liberal, and thus take the steam out of the radical movements and butterfly his father's assassination.

Seriously: do this TL.

Alexander III wasn't really against Germany. According to the Dutch Wikipedia:

"Zijn buitenlandse politiek, aanvankelijk pro-Duits, geraakte op Frankrijk georiënteerd."

Translated into English:

"His foreign policies, in the start pro-German, became orientated on France."

I know Wikipedia isn't that good of a source, but, it seems to be that the future Alexander III wasn't that against Germany, up until the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. If that had happened with much more pro-Russian consequenses, I think that Alex might've switched sides, since Germany had after all helped them in that crisis.
 
That is the POD of General Zod and Onkel Willie's The Twin Eagles and the Lion TL, along with a surviving Alexander II who outlives Alexander III, allowing the succession to pass to his third son Vladimir, who was considered to be similar to Nicholai and his father.
 
It is a Timeline on which I am working too.

The death of Nicholas was a great blow to the lives of Alexander and Maria, the parents.

With Nicholas still alive in 1866, Alexander II would perhaps be able to continue with reforms. This leads to less uprising and perhaps no assasination.

So in 1885, lets say Alexander dies of a heart attack Nicholas becomes Tsar.

As I read above he was not very liberal but he was intelligent and also a sensitive man, quite different than his brother Alexander. He could have made the Three Emperors Treaty work for longer period than it actually did. Rewriting the history of Europe in the process.

Perhaps he could have avoided Russia participating in WW1. He even could have prevented WW1 from happening as after Bismarck was fired, Europe needed a strong diplomat, like de Metternich. He could have played that role.
 
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