WI: Alexander I killed at Austerlitz?

[Yorel]

What if Alexander I of Russia had been shot by a stray bullet at Austerlitz?

His designated successor was his brother Constantine, who was an admirer of Napoleon at the time. Could we see a Franco-Russian alliance who would work better than OTL? Would the Russian came to Prussia's help after Iena?

 

[Mikestone8]

The fly in the buttermilk would be the Continental System.

However much Constantine may admire Napoleon, can he sit back and watch the Russian economy be ruined by the cutting off of her trade?

 

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It could somewhat work if Napoleon lets Russia do her thing in Turkey and otherwise does not meddle. Unfortunately, not the kind of guy he was.

 

[ImperialQueen]

Yeah, even with Francophiles like Constantine, you have to figure that eventually the Continental System would ruin the Russian economy to the point that Constantine would have to rethink his policies towards France or would have been overthrown and supplanted by a less Napoleon-admiring noble.