Russia wank POD 1682

With a POD in 1682, make Russia as successful as possible without ASB intervention. Bonus point if it gets control of Constantinople, the Bosphorus Strait, the Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles and a sufficient buffer zone. A time table of when different areas would be conquered would be nice.
 
Keeping it at it's current border but turning everyone within into Orthodox Russian speakers would be wank enough. If you stretch to far they no longer become Russian. Keeping Belarus and Ukraine, then making them fully Russian would be wank enough.
 
Keeping it at it's current border but turning everyone within into Orthodox Russian speakers would be wank enough. If you stretch to far they no longer become Russian. Keeping Belarus and Ukraine, then making them fully Russian would be wank enough.

That depends on how they would define the empire. Even now they still have areas that are neither Russian speaking nor Christian. Countries like Serbia and Bulgaria are both Slavic and Orthodox. One possibbility is to focus on religion rather than language, or they could do like France and use schools to teach the children Russian. Besides, a wank does not necessary mean that Russia would be able to keep all areas to the present. Even in OTL Russia have been larger than the country is now. You could also have some combination of the possibilities mentioned.
 
This
can give some ideas (starting from Chapter XXIV) - the actual PoD for Russia is in 1674, but things begin to diverge massively from OTL since exactly 1682 - Feodor III does not get crippled in horse accident and reigns happily (mostly) till late 1690ies, so instead of disaster of a Regency we see a string of capable rulers.
Though the fate of Sophia in this TL is borderline unlikely, things do happen. This is not intended as "bloating the blob" kind of wank, but "Russia is stronger economically and modernization happens more naturally" wank.
 
That depends on how they would define the empire. Even now they still have areas that are neither Russian speaking nor Christian. Countries like Serbia and Bulgaria are both Slavic and Orthodox. One possibbility is to focus on religion rather than language, or they could do like France and use schools to teach the children Russian. Besides, a wank does not necessary mean that Russia would be able to keep all areas to the present. Even in OTL Russia have been larger than the country is now. You could also have some combination of the possibilities mentioned.

Russian language, not Slavic. And Russian Orthodox, perhaps even with them staying with the rites Old Believers used instead of switching to the aged and warped Greek ones in order to try winning favor in the Balkans. And they are different Slavs down south. I am thinking The Russia's and Ruthenias being the thing to aim for. Little, Greater, Lesser, White, Black, Red... Of course they can just depopulate areas they conquer. That was the plans for if they got all the land Armenians inhabited. They would deport the Armenias then place Cossacks on the border. Probably the same with if they get Thrace. And come to think of it, what about the Ionians and Jevel? Areas occupied or directly related to the Royal family. I think the Czars near the end had a lot of family descended form Holstein, with claims over Bremen, Verden, etc. On that note, would this wank be more for the Royal dynasty or for the actual state or people?
 
Armenian parts of the Ottoman Empire would be interesting, plus maybe a (early) expansion on the Balkans. Not sure what would be the best time for this.
 
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