Question/What if with Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich

[FONT=&quot]Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich was the first born son of Alexander II of Russia. Does anybody know what his political views were, because all I could find (beyond Wikipedia as well) was something mentioning that he had a more in-depth education than his brother Alexander III. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Depending on his political views, how would his hypothetical reign have proceeded if he had not died of illness?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]I did a search and couldn't really find anything. If there is may someone give me links?
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[FONT=&quot]Thank you for your time.
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As I understand it he was much more of a liberal Tsar than Alexander III was, and he was the one actually given *training* to rule instead of being dumped into the throne by an elder brother dying and a father being killed by a bomb blast. That combination would have some impact, though whether or not by the 1880s the Russian Empire could be altered in a liberal fashion without the nationalism problem becoming a destabilizing force is a good question, especially with regard to Poland and Finland, and if the precedents are set there, then other nationalist movements will make their own demands, and then all else would follow.
 
He died at the age of 17; it's questionable whether he had well-defined political views yet. He seems to have got on much better with his father than Alexander III did, and his wider education and the peers selected for him strongly suggest he'd be a lot more liberal than his little brother - it's likely he'd attempt to transform Russia into a constitutional monarchy with an elected assembly, if his survival doesn't create butterflies that lead his father into doing so. How well this will actually work is another question.
 
He died at the age of 17; it's questionable whether he had well-defined political views yet. He seems to have got on much better with his father than Alexander III did, and his wider education and the peers selected for him strongly suggest he'd be a lot more liberal than his little brother - it's likely he'd attempt to transform Russia into a constitutional monarchy with an elected assembly, if his survival doesn't create butterflies that lead his father into doing so. How well this will actually work is another question.

IMHO his survival (which would mean a handwaving strengthening of his constitution but then again he was not fore-ordained to have a weak one before he was born) would create sufficient butterflies that Aleksandr II's fate is likely to be substantially different. After all, getting blown up, even on the day it happened, was the result of a set of circumstances specific to that day. Had the many preceding days been radically different (which having his eldest son live, and thus having two heirs would have made it) its equally possible that any bomb plot would have been discovered before being carried out (as IIRC many were) or would have failed.

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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