No Russian Time Of Troubles

What if there was no Russian time of troubles? What are the effects of this in the immediate and farther future?
 
Have Ivan IV Grozny not kill his son Ivan Ivanovich, or just butterfly away his greater stages of paranoia and madness. Alternatively, have the Godunov dynasty stay in power after Boris I and Fyodor II.
 
If you, say, have the validity of pseudo-Demetrius disproven really early and interest by the King of Poland destroyed, it might leave Fyodor Godunov unchallenged; he was a very promising young man, so that might lead to a recovery of Russia. You leave with a stronger Russia that might regain the territories it lost to Sweden and Poland earlier, and thus modernise earlier.
 
What if there was no Russian time of troubles? What are the effects of this in the immediate and farther future?
The effects would depend mostly on why exactly there was no Time of Troubles.
Was there an unbroken line of succession to the Riurikovich line? (Through which one of Ivan the Terrible's sons? Ivan and Dimitri both had some chances of surviving, and Fyodor could sire a son). Or do you butterfly away the great hunger of 1601-1603, and let Godunovs' rule continue? Alternatively, you can abort the Time of Troubles by keeping False Dimitry on the throne. But in each and every of these situations there would be different consequences, at least in short term.
 
The implications of a continued Godunov rule can be interesting if you somehow keep them around, Boris was actively trying to get involved in European diplomacy, something the Romanovs put on the backburner until Alexis or maybe even Fyodor Alexeevich.
 
The effects would depend mostly on why exactly there was no Time of Troubles.
Was there an unbroken line of succession to the Riurikovich line? (Through which one of Ivan the Terrible's sons? Ivan and Dimitri both had some chances of surviving, and Fyodor could sire a son). Or do you butterfly away the great hunger of 1601-1603, and let Godunovs' rule continue? Alternatively, you can abort the Time of Troubles by keeping False Dimitry on the throne. But in each and every of these situations there would be different consequences, at least in short term.

How about an unbroken line of succession in the Rurikovich line? Wouldn't the famine in Russia possibly cause an collapse?
 
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