I've been reading about Russia recently, so last night I decided to see if we had any TL's centered on Russia here, and didn't notice any. How many do we have?
I've been reading about Russia recently, so last night I decided to see if we had any TL's centered on Russia here, and didn't notice any. How many do we have?
A Russian naval timeline?5) Schlitte's craftsmen doesn't get arrested in Lubeck, allowing them to construct Ivangorod and thereby having Russia enter the sea trade much earlier. Also, Elena Glinskaya survives an assassination attempt on her life and has the Shuiskys discredited for her husband's death. She also lives long enough to raise Ivan IV and Yuri of Uglich, which in turn changes Ivan IV's behavior for the better. (Earlier Russian entry into the Baltic sea trade would also mean that Sweden could have an early war against Russia, or the Spaniards conquer England after their Armada wins the sea battle.) It can also mean that Ivan IV may also have a chance of marrying the interim female leader of the Kazan Khanate and avoid the bloody legend of how the Soyembike Tower came to be. The planned thread can be called Opportunity Taken: Russia's Early Rise to Power.
A Russian naval timeline?![]()
More ideas;
what if the slavs somehow went in other directions, or got assimilated, and 'Russia' was kept to the finno-ugrian peoples?
what if 'russia' was led, united and enlarged instead of Moscow(vy), but by what is now Ukraine or Belarus?
Still more ideas:
What if Russia didn't (re)unite? It's not as if having an area that big under one rule is inevitable, just meaning the lands of old Kievan Rus.
What if Byzantium survived? Yes, this is going to matter to Russia.
What if the Mongols never amounted to much (so far as Russia is concerned)?
I can see a split between the two Kievan Rus' states, with Yaropolk and Vladimir. Or either Lithuania, Kipchaks, Khazars (hopefully not), or some other power (Sweden) takes control of Rus'. There was a post where Jochi created his own empire, at the spot of the Rus' lands.
Actually at the time a bubonic plaque didn't affected Lithuania.1) A worse Bubonic Plague in Lithuania that wiped out the pagan elements, leading to a cold response from the Catholic Church (mainly because Lithuania has a large Orthodox Christian population), prodding either Jogaila or another Lithuanian ruler at the time of the Plague to convert to Orthodoxy while marrying Sofia of Muscovy. Jadwiga in this case may die from the Plague. Either Moscow, Kiev or Polotsk could end up as Third Rome.