The Other Tsar

In 1682, Ivan Alexeyvitch Romanov and his half-brother Peter were crowned co-tsars, with Ivan V being nominally the over-king. However, Ivan was physically and mentally infirm, and was dominated by his sister, teh regent sophia. He died in 1696, and Peter I (the great) assumed full control over Russia.

What if Ivan is healthy, without his OTL disabilities? Does Peter ever get proclaimed tsar? Can Ivan seperate himself from his sister's domination? What effect does a stronger Ivan, but no Peter, have on russia?
 
So Ivan throws his sister in prison, makes his brother ambassador to England, and reigns happily ever after...:)

The question then becomes, does Ivan westernise Russia, or does he reject westernisation and keep things as they are? Does his solution of sending Peter over to London give him headaches in future, because it would only increase Peter's interest in the west? Being born in 1666, Ivan could have conceivably lived until, say, 1746. What would be the results of that?
 
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So Ivan throws his sister in prison, makes his brother ambassador to England, and reigns happily ever after...:)

The question then becomes, does Ivan westernise Russia, or does he reject westernisation and keep things as they are? Does his solution of sending Peter over to London give him headaches in future, because it would only increase Peter's interest in the west? Being born in 1666, Ivan could have conceivably lived until, say, 1746. What would be the results of that?
Westernisation was already under way, so only difference on this would be, that the methods used would be less harsh.
 
This is another interesting set of possibilities to think about. While Ivan V's older sister the Tsarevna Sophia seemed dead set against most of their kid half-brother Peter's ideas, there doesn't seem to have been any opposition from not only Ivan V himself but also his wife Praskovia Saltykov whom he'd married in 1684 when he was 18 and she was 20. In spite of the fact that Praskovia had been chosen by Sophia to wed her brother so she could bear much needed heirs to the Romanov Dynasty, Praskovia wisely knew which side her bread was buttered and while rather catty to everyone else, was resolutely loyal to Peter both before and after Peter abolished Sophia's regency. Perhaps Tsaritsa Praskovia didn't want to spend her life in the Romanov terem with Sophia and the other sisters dominating her and her five daughters- and preferred being able to autocratically rule over her daughters herself (and for his part, Peter always treated her with the courtesies due a Tsaritsa- far more than he did for his 1st wife Eudoxia).
Between his shrewd, physically stronger wife and his force of nature half-brother, Ivan really didn't stand much of a chance even after Sophia's overthrow.
However; even if he had been healthy, I think Ivan would have listened to Peter's modernization ideas and would have had no problems with Peter succeeding him (as it was completely unheard of for tsars' daughters to openly rule before Peter's death). He may have sent Peter as Ambassador to England or Holland prior to then,though (not a bad idea, nimbletoes).
Of course, maybe another question would have been how different Russia would be had Peter been married to the shrewd Praskovia while Ivan married to the dull Eudoxia
 
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