Of the many possibilities that would have occurred, one of the ones that I've wanted to explore (and I'm kinda throwing up the possibility of doing in the future) is the possibility of Tsar Aleksandr I having a male heir to succeed him, rather than either his direct younger brother and the confirmed Tsesarevich, Konstantin, or his (Konstantin's) younger brother and his actual successor, Nikolai I.
Now, Aleksandr had two children, however both were female (which were barred from succession in accordance with the recently passed Pauline laws), and both didn't live past toddlerhood (the first died before she turned one, the latter died to an infection believed to be related to teething, aged seventeen months.
Now, enough on backstory. Assuming that the second child was born a male (a PoD potentially being around 1806), and survived long enough to survive his father, to become Emperor. How could Russia develop from this? Could it give Aleksandr I or his son the incentive to move Russia away from holy autocracy into an enlightened constitutional (if not fully parliamentary) monarchy?
Now, Aleksandr had two children, however both were female (which were barred from succession in accordance with the recently passed Pauline laws), and both didn't live past toddlerhood (the first died before she turned one, the latter died to an infection believed to be related to teething, aged seventeen months.
Now, enough on backstory. Assuming that the second child was born a male (a PoD potentially being around 1806), and survived long enough to survive his father, to become Emperor. How could Russia develop from this? Could it give Aleksandr I or his son the incentive to move Russia away from holy autocracy into an enlightened constitutional (if not fully parliamentary) monarchy?