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Assuming that Napoleon was less ambitious than OTL and soon reached a negotiated peace with Britain and Russia. France still controled Western Europe (including Italian peninsula and the Confederation of the Rhine) and also had Austria and Spain as close allies. Eastern Europe, except the Duchy of Warsaw, remained within Russian sphere of influence. What would Russia do with the Ottomans if France gave them a free hand? I can think of two courses of action:

1/ They liberated the Balkan, setting up states based on ethnicity, then gave Constantinoples to an enlarged Greece with a Romanov on the throne.

2/ They annexed everything on the Balkan on the way to Constantinoples and Salonika to establish a land connection.

Which of these two would be the most practical move for Russia? Also would they keep a rump Ottoman state (with its Arabian possessions intact) as protectorate or completely dismember the empire?
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