Lady Russia

in the 75 years after the death of Petter the Great Russia was ruled by woman (Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, Catherine II) after Catherine the Great no woman would ever rule over Russia again, however on the death of Tsar Paul his Wife, Maria Feodorovna, tried to pull a Catherine and become Empress on the grounds that she had been crowned with Paul, she had no backing and failed, but what she's pulled it off?
 
Maria Feodorovna was a fierce opponent of Napoleon Bonaparte so the treaty of Treaty of Tilsit is unlikely to be signed with Maria in charge of Russia.
Otherwise she raised the future tsar Nicolas so on several other issues there would be no major differences.
 
Otherwise she raised the future tsar Nicolas so on several other issues there would be no major differences.

would it be Nicolas I? with Maria in power 3 years longer the OTL's Alexander I would Constantine become Tsar? also Maria is less likely to be Metternich's bitch in the post-war years, meaning full Russian involvement in the Greek War of Independence?
 
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