Smallest Russia possible post-1815

What is the smallest Russia can be reduced to, both territorially and politically, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars?

Bonus points if you deny them European coastline.
 
During the alt-Russian Civil War in a CP Victory, have the Germans prop up the Idel-Ural State, the Cossacks of Don and Kuban, Kalmyk secessionists, Volga Germans, and north Caucasus secessionist efforts. Whatever regime pops up in Moscow will be cut off from the Caucasus and from Siberia with the Idel-Ural Republic standing in the way.

Rostov, Kuban, Kalmykia, North Caucasia, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Volga German lands, and Siberia would all be lost to Russia ... at least until Germany gets distracted.
 
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During the alt-Russian Civil War in a CP Victory, have the Germans prop up the Idel-Ural State, the Cossacks of Don and Kuban, Kalmyk secessionists, Volga Germans, and north Caucasus secessionist efforts. Whatever regime pops up in Moscow will be cut off from the Caucasus and from Siberia with the Idel-Ural Republic standing in the way.

Rostov, Kuban, Kalmykia, North Caucasia, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Volga German lands, and Siberia would all be lost to Russia ... at least until Germany gets distracted.

Maybe Japan could prop up a state in eastern Siberia? I'd also guess that Khiva and Bukhara would go independent and fall into Britain's sphere of influence in this scenario.
 
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Have the British aid the Ottomans in recovering Caucasian territories and the Germans, Swedish and Finnish conquer/"recover" parts of European Russia, and Japan colonising Siberia and Primorsky Krai (AKA Russian China).
 
Have the British aid the Ottomans in recovering Caucasian territories and the Germans, Swedish and Finnish conquer/"recover" parts of European Russia, and Japan colonising Siberia and Primorsky Krai (AKA Russian China).

You'd need to trigger some kind of "Berlin Conference"-esque event on the part of all the other European powers in order for this to be realistic though. One of the big issues with large territorial changes Post-Napoleon is that the idea of balance of power/ "The Concert of Europe" is firmly established, at least in principal, for "civilized" counteries at the Congress of Vienna so that large-scale unilaterial shifts have fallen out of fashion.

A big civil break-down in Russian during/following an alternative Crimean War, though, possibly lining up with a major revolt in Poland, among the Cossaks, ect. in which you get Russia's neighbors to agree she needs "prunning" in order to stay stable and not pose a threat to the peace/balance in Eastern Europe though is certainly a possability assuming the Turks end up in a better position during the preceding decades. Best/Worst case scenario, in my opinion; Sweden recovers Finland, a Polish Kingdom liberated (Though likely in personal union or at least closely aligned with Austria to get them to agree), the Baltics attached to the German Confederation under German princelings and Prussian influence, Russia pushed out of the Black Sea regions and Caucuses as well as central Asia, and being denied any good ports on the Pacific/concessions out of China. Cutting off Siberia to any reasonable extent is... well, who else is going to want it?
 
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