WI: Alexander II of Russia avoided assassination in 1881

What if Alexander II avoided assassination in 1881 and continued to rule over Russia, Finland, and Poland?
 
Russia would develop to constitutional monarchy. But probably there is still some kind of secret police which fights against anarchist groups. And Russia might keep better ties to Germany.
 
What if Alexander II avoided assassination in 1881 and continued to rule over Russia, Finland, and Poland?

Sorry, but, I think, probably, he was killed some later. He was avoided 5 assassination.
4.04.1866 (the shot), 25.05.1867 (the shot), 14.04.1879 (the shot), 19.11.1879 (the bomb), 17.02.1880 (the bomb), 13.03.1881 (the bomb)...
He can established constitutional monarchy, but after his killing, his son may cancel it.
To save him life, I think, it's needed change police hardly.
 
Russia would develop to constitutional monarchy. But probably there is still some kind of secret police which fights against anarchist groups.

Or really any dissidents; Russia may get an earlier parliament, but the Tsar's autocratic rule will essentially remain intact, so long as Alex has anything to say about it. The really big changes, will be even faster industrialization and modernization, and, like you said, closer relations with Germany...
 
While he was more liberal than his successors, he was still a conservative. Don't expect the Duma to get any kind of real power; it'd be like an even more autocratic version of the German Empire. And the reactionaries who would succeed him in real life are still alive, so I wonder how much leaving him alive would truly solve. Chances are that any moves made towards any kind of liberalization, however small, would be reversed or limited by Alexander III.

He was rather fond of Germany, however, so we may see a different alliance system develop, or at the very least get a Russia which is less eager to stand with France against their monarchist pals.
 
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