Russian Royal Family flees to Russian Alaska

Onyx

Banned
Okay....
So Seward doesn't want to buy Alaska and still becomes under Russian Territory.
So, the 1917 Revolution kicks in, and the Royal Family flees to Alaska, with the Bolsheviks winning, Alaska starts to have White Russian refugees fleeing to the territory, which causes Alaska to secede or rebel (I guess) from Russia with help from Western Powers who the aids the nation.

So what would happen next? Would Alexei start seeing Red Russians from his house (No Pun Intended) by 1930s if they invade?
 
White resistance would continue from Russia, but the royal family would probably be living in some country house in the UK.
 
I was thinking of writing a TL like this. Seward stays in the Senate and becomes President Pro Tempore and then President after Andrew Johnson is removed from office. There is no purchase of ITTL. The Tsar flees to Sitka during the Revolution and eventually is invited to rule in Ottawa as George V annexes Alaska. Not plausible by any means but it would be fun.
 
What aid from the Western Powers? They're a bit busy fighting a World War at the moment, and I doubt they'd waste any resources to help with a massive civil war in which neither side would (or even could) help them at all against the Central Powers.
 

Onyx

Banned
What aid from the Western Powers? They're a bit busy fighting a World War at the moment, and I doubt they'd waste any resources to help with a massive civil war in which neither side would (or even could) help them at all against the Central Powers.

I mean after I guess.....
 
What aid from the Western Powers? They're a bit busy fighting a World War at the moment, and I doubt they'd waste any resources to help with a massive civil war in which neither side would (or even could) help them at all against the Central Powers.

There was a time when saying that could get you shot. Even during ww2 plenty of people remembered the invasion of Russia by the west.

Anyways in rl they sent in troops to invade most major ports along with the Czechoslovak legion.
 
I see a situation similar situation to the Cuban-American community in Florida and the Taiwanese in OTL . Consider how few people actually lived in Alaska before American purchase and then consider the following:

c.1920- Failed attempt at invasion during the Russian Civil War....

c.5/24/1925- Anti-American riots in Juneau, Alaska....

c.5/31/1939- Police officials report c.25 bombings targetting businesses with allegedly "friendly attitudes toward the Soviet Union..."

c.10/25/1939- League of Nations votes to recognize the Soviet Union, expelling the delegation from the Alaskan "government-in-exile"

c.1940- Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, meet with the "Russian government-in-exile" claiming that Adolph Hitler will help liberate Russia...

c.6/2/1941- Adolph Hitler forms the 29th Waffen Grenadiers (1st Russian) based mainly on Alaskan refugees....

c.12/31/1946- President Harry Truman announces that he will grant full diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union rather than the "Russian government-in-exile"....

c.1/31/1947- Alaskan Relations Act; Under Republican pressure from Congress, Truman passes act insuring relations with Alaska stating "union must be made under peaceful means..."

c.1/11/1950- President Harry Truman announces that he will continue to support the government of Alaska, during sale of military planes...

c.9/6/1975- Soviet and American leaders pressure Alaska to drop plans for U.N. membership....
 

MacCaulay

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What aid from the Western Powers? They're a bit busy fighting a World War at the moment, and I doubt they'd waste any resources to help with a massive civil war in which neither side would (or even could) help them at all against the Central Powers.

(preparing for "citation mode")

Buh...let me get the book off the shelf.

According to: Russian Sideshow: America's Undeclared War 1918-1920, the following American units were sent to Russia, either through the eastern port at Archangel, or on the Pacific coast at Vladivostok...

In Archangel, 5,000 troops from the 339th Infantry Regiment, 1/310th Engineers, and assorted medical staff landed with British, French, Polish, Canadian, and other troops.

In Vladivostok, the 31st and 27th Infantry Regiments, with some elements of the 13th and 62nd. This numbered around 8,000 men, just in the American component. There were significant Japanese and British additions to the Vladivostok mission, as well as the Czech Legion when it was recovered from the Siberian railway.

That's 13,000 troops (not counting the non-combatants that the US, British, and Canadians added to help repair the Siberian railway). So...yes. I think they were willing to help a bit.
 
Thing is this would need to be a contingency plan. If the remaining whites merely fleed they'd be trapped in a tundra with no supplies,no army and th Rdd Army following.

If they had any sens they quickly retreat into Siberia and the Soviets would incorporate Alaska into the USSR.
 
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