What if: Austrian Prussian support for Russia during the Crimean war

The Crimean War
The great powers of Europe had long agreed that a chaotic dissolution of the Ottoman empire should be avoided. That did not mean that they were passive observers, or that they did not have clear, often contrary interests.


The traditional goal of Russia was to gain access for its Black Sea fleet thru the strategic Bosporus strait, so that Russia would have a direct connection to the Mediterranean. The Russian Czar also believed himself to be the protector of the 10 million Christians in the Ottoman empire. In addition, Russia and France pressed for monopoly on the holy places of Christianity in Jerusalem, the Czar was displeased that the Ottomans preferred Catholic France to Orthodox Russia. Also, as part of a greater geopolitical conflict did Russian and British interest collide in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Persia. The expansionist Britons wanted to be in the Ottomans sultans favor to gain trade benefits.


War broke autumn 1853 when Russia marched into Ottoman territories in the Balkan and declared Wallachia and Moldova to be Russian protectorates. The Ottoman sultan refused Russia's demands confident that France and Britain would support him. Later as Russia's ally Austria abandoned its partner and Prussia remained neutral, Russia stood alone without friends.


The Russian fleet was in the early phase of the war able to score a decisive victory against its enemies in the Black Sea, but this was a victory that would prove to be costly. In Great Britain there was strong anti-Russian sentiment and in France, the emperor Napoleon the 3(like his uncle) wished to see a military triumph at Russia's cost.


In March 1854 a common fleet was sent into the Black Sea, where British ships and French rifles gave them a technological edge. Russia took months to supply troops and supplies to the battlefront. This was due to the lack of a railway network south of Moscow.


The long and bloody trench warfare around Sevastopol in Crimea, were to last almost a year. In all 650 thousand soldiers lost their life in battle and to disease. Of these soldiers 475 thousand were Russian. Czar Nikolai 1 collapsed due to the defeat and dies shortly after.


After hectic peace negotiations it was in March 1856 signed a peace treaty in Paris. The treaty decreed that Russia were to surrender Moldova and Wallachia, thereby blocking Russia's access to the Donau. More serious to Russia was the demand that the Black Sea were to be a neutral area, without access for warships, thereby crushing Russia's dream of access to the Mediterranean for the time being.


Internationally Russia stood as a shadow of its former self. because the country showed to be economically and technologically vulnerable, lead to reforms and self-reflection.

What if: Austria and Prussia had supported Russia in the Crimean war? Or Austria alone? Or Prussia alone?
 
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Austria's opposition to Russia is a tough thing to change, considering how the Austrians were ungrateful for the slow Russian response against the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. That, among other reasons, such as Austria's interest in keeping its Slavic minorities compliant.
As for Prussia, i'm not sure. I don't know what sort of advantages they would get by participating in a war against Turkey.
 
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