What if Europe dogpiled russia in Crimean war, how much could Russian status drop ?

raharris1973

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Say Austria, Sweden and then even prussia join in and defeat russia withe the French, British, Turks and Sardinians. Russia's borders get rolled back per palmerston's grand design. Could russia been beaten so badly it's like an opium war? Russia has to concede treaty ports and extraterritoriality to the European coalition and loses tariff autonomy?
 

ben0628

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Say Austria, Sweden and then even prussia join in and defeat russia withe the French, British, Turks and Sardinians. Russia's borders get rolled back per palmerston's grand design. Could russia been beaten so badly it's like an opium war? Russia has to concede treaty ports and extraterritoriality to the European coalition and loses tariff autonomy?

As far as territory, the most I see them losing is Poland, far Western Ukraine, Lithuania, Finland, and everything south of the Caucuses. Maybe even the Crimean Peninsula, but doubt it. Britain wouldn't let Russia loose too badly though because of wanting to maintain a balance of power. Personally, I think losing some territory would be good for Russia and they'd probably be able to take a lot of it back in the future.
 
Actually, Russia's STATUS might well be better. After all, if all of Europe dogpiles on her, how could she possibly win. As opposed to OTL where expeditionary forces from France and Britain at the ends of very long supply lines were able to devastate the might of the Russian Empire.
 
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