Russia does not sell Alaska

Lol, no on this old forum i used to play on the admin made it so that everytime people tried to say noob it filters to up and coming new player.:D

Anyways, i was wondering why people always tell people to use a search function that is incredibly slow, nearly useless on half the days in a year and ususally dont find what your looking for and brings in results that dont actually have the words you type in.

HE QUESTIONS THE ADMIN, BURN HIM!
 
I also feel the need to reference a superb (but sadly unfinished) TL, the Empire of Alaska, where the Russian monarchy flees to Alaska after the revolution and sets up their own government. It's pretty cool, and I hope the author finishes it some day.

That sounds pretty entertaining. I could see that... or Alaska being something more like Texas before joining the union.
 
So Alaska would have been the Russian Royals Taiwan. They would lose the Russian part of Europe and Asia but still control Russian America.

Seems the Russians needed to declare a homestead act to get Russians to move to Alaska. Chances are any independent Russian Alaska would have close ties to the US West Coast States.
 
So Alaska would have been the Russian Royals Taiwan. They would lose the Russian part of Europe and Asia but still control Russian America.

Seems the Russians needed to declare a homestead act to get Russians to move to Alaska. Chances are any independent Russian Alaska would have close ties to the US West Coast States.

I don't know why the Russian Imperial Family would flee to Alaska of all places, if the Russians keep Alaska, a Communist/Republican revolution occurs, and they manage to escape. It's isolated, sparsely populated, and doesn't make a very base for reclaiming the empire, imo. I see them fleeing to Britain. Of course that really doesn't give them anything to work with, vis a vis reclaiming the empire, but I don't see Alaska siding with the imperials.

If anything, Russian Alaska would probably throw it's lot with the Revolution, be it Republican or Communist. No doubt it's population would be probably be bolstered by the gold rush and such, but I see it's population would probably be mostly Canadian/American, as one poster before me suggested. If anything, Alaska might seek to join the USA/Canada if Russia collapses as OTL.
 
^Are you sure. A smaller population is easier to control then a large one. So the monarchs if they had gone to Alaska with a decent military force they could have stopped the Russian revolution from affecting Alaska. Also, they could have asked the US or UK. to send help since the US and UK. would not be too happy if the Russian Revolution happened to take root in Alaska near Canada and the US.

And why would the Russian Monarch have gone to the UK. or somewhere else. Once a monarch leaves his nation it is usually harder for them to return or to rule any future nation. If they had at least gone to Russian Alaska they have at least a place which they could rule over.
 
If the USA doesn't get it at some point odds are good it would end up British.

And no. A White Russian Alaska as cool as that cliche is wouldn't happen.
 
^Are you sure. A smaller population is easier to control then a large one. So the monarchs if they had gone to Alaska with a decent military force they could have stopped the Russian revolution from affecting Alaska. Also, they could have asked the US or UK. to send help since the US and UK. would not be too happy if the Russian Revolution happened to take root in Alaska near Canada and the US.

And why would the Russian Monarch have gone to the UK. or somewhere else. Once a monarch leaves his nation it is usually harder for them to return or to rule any future nation. If they had at least gone to Russian Alaska they have at least a place which they could rule over.

Yes, pretty sure. I'm not claiming to be an expert but how would they even get to Alaska in the first place? They couldn't even get out of Russia in OTL. And where are they going to get these military forces to stop the revolution from affecting Alaska, and to prop up their regime there? The Tsarist military literally fell apart with the Revolution and the Whites were basically a bunch of conflicting ideologies with only one common interest, that being anti-Communism.

They would've went to the UK or fled to Europe in general because the British nearly offered asylum to the Russian Royal Family OTL. Some of the former Romanovs also settled in Denmark, and in Paris, Berlin, Belgrade, and even Harbin and Shanghai had thriving White émigré communities. Alaska is of little value, as I said before it's rather isolated and sparsely populated. The Romanovs would be better backed up by foreign money and troops, things that Alaska can't really offer them.

Alaska remaining part of Russia after the Revolution, or being annexed to Canada seem to be the most likely options. If Russia goes communist, you can be sure the British would probably conquer it during the messy allied interventions in Russia and attach it to Canada, with tacit American approval.
 
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