Russia Repurchases Alaska

Gotta be able to outbid the British. The Czars might see it as a waste of money, especially if they win after a bidding war.
 
Why would the British want it? Seems like a bigger waste of money for a larger empire.
Land is land. Besides, it could be used to make it easier to get prospectors to the Klondike around the turn of the century, though it seems loads of them were Americans from Pacific Coast who went on their own. Actually, if the land is sold you might just get the anadians insisting on the whole panhandle being purchased, so there would be no more disputes.
 
With a POD from 1867 to 1914, get Russia to repurchase Alaska from America.

Gold in Siberia had been discovered at approximately the same time or even earlier than on Klondike so this could not be a serious motivation and Russian government did not have money to spare for such a purchase even if it was offered. Russian main areas of expansion during that period were 1st Central Asia (among other reasons, important as cotton-producing area) and when the borders there had been settled, the Far East. So what could be a motivation?
 
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