WI/AHC: Godunov dynasty?

Is there any way to have Boris Godunov and his descendants hold on to the Russian throne for significantly longer than OTL?
 
Prevent/arrest the murder of Fyodor II of Russia, or maybe have Boris live long enough to purge enemy boyars and leave a stable succession for Fyodor...
 
For OP, a general Feodor-Godunov-survives PoD would be enough. If he managed to stay on the throne then the Time of Troubles would be butterflied and Russia would turn towards the West earlier - Boris Godunov imported Europeans wholesale and tried to marry his daughter off to various Scandinavian princes. This therefore makes Russia more of a political and economic player in international affairs during the 1600s. Meanwhile, Zygmunt Wasa and his son wouldn't be as distracted with trying to place their candidates on the Russian throne and could put more energy into either making Poland stronger and less anarchic (and maybe seizing the Black Sea coast and the Danubian Principalities from the Ottomans at an opportune moment) or attempting to regain Sweden and failing over and over again.

As to stolengood's suggestion, maybe FD1 a) converts to Orthodoxy, thereby keeping the Church on-side; b) executes a few major boyars to show he means business - he magnanimously pardoned Vasilli Shuisky for plotting against him early on, and went on to actually succeed in deposing him; c) marries Xenia Godunova instead of, you know, raping her: this gives him added legitimacy even if people don't accept him as a Rurikid.

Interestingly, FD2 had a posthumous son, Tsarevich Ivan (1611 - 1614). If the Cossacks keep him handy for a later putsch, they could enthrone him if Mikhail Romanov dies before having children - any point before 1627, which is surprisingly late, considering Mikhail was trying to start a dynasty.

Some other fascinating alternative Tsars in the Time of Troubles, just for interest's sake, include: Feodor Ivanovich Mstislavsky, who was offered the throne several times as the last descendant of Ivan III and died without heirs in 1622; Simeon Bekbulatovich, who had already been Tsar for a year in 1575 and who so terrified the actual Tsars of the period that all six of his children were killed or sent to nunneries at various points, but who (like Mstislavsky) showed little Imperial ambition; and Jerome Horsley, an English trader and adventurer who had proposed marriage to Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa, Feodor I's closest Rurikid relative, but was denied by Boris Godunov.
 
if Mikhail Romanov dies before having children - any point before 1627, which is surprisingly late, considering Mikhail was trying to start a dynasty.
Bad luck with women - first wife candidate was hated by Mikhail's mom, who said that if Mikhail marries her "I will no longer live in your Tsardom", and mom's preferred candidate was sick and infertile, though with pedigree.
 
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