Other Potential Dynasties Taking Root in Russia

A Swedish-Russian Union? I'm not sure if that can even be achieved, let along a Lithuania-Rus' union. Alternatively, I'm thinking that maybe Kievan Rus' undergoes a warring states period for a while until a medieval Russian 'Bismarck' comes along to unite them in time to repulse the Mongol invasion. How can we transform Kievan Rus' into a state that can absorb nomadic invaders on the level of China and Persia? (example: Kipchaks conquer Kievan Rus' but becomes assimilated in the process)
 
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OK, but Sweden was already Catholic by the 13th century. We do need to go way further back for a PoD that will result in an Orthodox Germany and Scandinavia.
 
On the other hand, was there a chance that Russia could have been ruled by the Cossacks? On a Khmelnytsky level, someone possibly like Razin or Pugachev. with regards to the PoD of Jadwiga born as a boy and Jogaila would have to marry the daughter of Dmitry Donskoy, there is also a possibility that boy version of Jadwiga could either become King of Poland or King of Hungary. I was hoping for the former, so Mary of Hungary can marry Ladislaus of Naples, thereby stabilizing Hungary's line of succession.
 
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