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Let's say Peter III carries through his threat of sending Catherine to a nunnery, and any coup against him fails. What does his long term reign look like? What further policies does he enact after his inital wave of reform? A few suggestions:

- Greater emancipation of the serfs, allowing earlier urbanisation in the empire.
- More autonomy to the Baltic Governorates, perhaps giving them their own treasuries as model statelets for wider reform.
- Invitation for large scale settlement of Germans in Russia. Perhaps they could have more of a "fifth column" impact in a future Russian-German war.
- Less concern for settlement in the south, instead focusing on expansion into Poland. Perhaps a Pugachev-style revolt is unaddressed for longer.
- A different candidate for King of Poland, but who?
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