What is the maximum balkanisation of Russia with a POD after 1750?

In our timeline, Russia became by far the largest European state, even after it lost the rest of the Soviet Union. Is it possible to break up Russia even further?

I'm particularly interested in whether the Russian ethnic group can be divided into multiple identities, though to do this we'd probably need to delay nationalism as a force, so likely push off the French Revolution somehow. Feel free to use as many PODs as are needed. The more divisions, the more bonus points.
 
Nastier and longer civil war. leading to various small warlord states?
I am afraid the inner reasons for 'breaking up Russia even further' won't do.
The Russians are inclined to hold together no matter what.

Your best choice would be more successful foreign invasion. The only candidates are Napoleon and Hitler.
If these two guys had been wiser, stronger, more realistic, if the winters in 1812 and 1945 had been extraordinary warm and if the springs had been unbelievably dry, if the Russian leaders Alexander I and Stalin had been more stupid or they'd better stumbled, fell down and die in the most crucial moment. And if... well, that's too many 'ifs':)
 
I am afraid the inner reasons for 'breaking up Russia even further' won't do.
The Russians are inclined to hold together no matter what.

Your best choice would be more successful foreign invasion. The only candidates are Napoleon and Hitler.
If these two guys had been wiser, stronger, more realistic, if the winters in 1812 and 1945 had been extraordinary warm and if the springs had been unbelievably dry, if the Russian leaders Alexander I and Stalin had been more stupid or they'd better stumbled, fell down and die in the most crucial moment. And if... well, that's too many 'ifs':)
I figured a worse civil war would need more foreign intervention. And probably only take the peripherals.
 
The Steppe might be the greatest obstacle to a Balkanized Russia. European Russia may not have many navigable rivers, but it has similarly few mountain ranges to channel the population into cantons. For the PoD, the longer steamboats, railways, telegraphs, etc. can be delayed, the better.
 
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