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In our own timeline, the Khazars, once a powerful people who were an influential force in world affairs, nearly totally disappeared from the historical record not long after the destruction of their capital by the Rus. What if Sviatoslav hadn't succeeded in destroying Khazar power, instead perhaps simply winning some manner of limited victory, so that a smaller but sizeable Khazar Nation survives, with its Jewish identity strengthened in the Volga Delta?

Let's say, perhaps, that this Khazar State is strong enough to survive well into the 18th century, perhaps finally falling to Catherine the Great at around the same time the French Revolution breaks out in Paris. This causes the Russian empress to come into possession of a territory with a large Jewish population. It also means that the world Jewish population is represented with a state until the late eighteenth century, and that Russia comes into possession of yet another sizeable Jewish population, but this one a majority rather than a large minority, perhaps numbering 1.5 million or so in 1790.

What sort of implications might this have on Russian, and Jewish history?
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