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Konstantin Katakazi was a Russian diplomat with some experience in Balkan affairs and no experience in great power diplomacy who managed to really annoy the US government during his time there (late 1869 to late 1871) by plotting and scheming as if the US were a small Balkan country. Such was the displeasure that the US had towards him, that it cast a pall over Grand Duke Alexei's visit to the United States in November 1871 - so much so that it may even have stopped the two countries signing an alliance.

So WI the Russians keep Katakazi in the Balkans and send someone more suitable to the US in 1869? Might we end up with a formal Russo-American alliance?

And even if it didn't do so, would Grand Duke Alexei spending more than a single day in Washington DC have any long term impacts?

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