WI: Longer Lived Alexander II?

In OTL, Alexander the Liberator was killed in an assassination attempt, but what if he'd manage to avoid getting killed and was able to live longer? Let's say...another twenty years at the least, putting him in his early 80's. What effects could this have on Russia's history?
 
Hardly Alexander II lives two decades longer but even 10 - 15 years longer might give intresting results. Alexander II had meaning give constitution within few days but he died before. So when Alexander II lives Russia gets some kind of parliament. But this all depends totally dies he later from natural causes or kill him later. If Alexander II dies from natural causes, his son Alexander III, if he is still alive when his father dies, hasn't any excuse attempt to abolish constitution. Of course there would be very big problem between czar and parliament.

In foreign politics Russia might be ally of Germany longer. But it is different thing are they allies on Great War.
 

katchen

Banned
Let's really make it interesting. Let's stretch Alexander II's life to 1905. How would he have handled the 1905 Crisis with Japan over Korea? Or would there have been a crisis at all?
 
Let's really make it interesting. Let's stretch Alexander II's life to 1905. How would he have handled the 1905 Crisis with Japan over Korea? Or would there have been a crisis at all?

OK THAT is ASB. I can't see him living to his mid-80's. Plus with a POD in 1881 the crisis and war with Japan, and subsequent revolution, would be completely different.
 

katchen

Banned
I can see where you're coming from, Constantine. Queen Victoria, after all, lived only to 81.
However, Alexander might well have lived to 1895. And he could have used the settlement of the Sino-Japanese War to broker a partition of Manchuria and Korea that would meet both Russia and Japan's needs, thereby butterflying away the Russo-Japanese War ten yeas later.
The dimensions of such a settlement might be:
Russia withdraws it's objections to Japan posessing Lliaotung or Korea.
In return, Japan has no objection to Russia annexing northeast Korea up to the port of Wonsan (Gensan in Japanese) and a second trans-Asian railroad from Wonsan through Changchun, Urga (Ulan Bator Mongolia OTL), Hami, Urumchi Semipalatinsk and west to Tsaritsyn and Odessa and Kiev (with a rail link from Urga to Peking across the Gobi and another from Hami through Kansu to Sian and Shanghai and Peking), creating an exclusive sphere of influence in the northern 2/3 of Manchuria, Mongolia and Kansu while Japan has an exclusive sphere of influence in Lliaoning and annexes the rest of Korea. Neither nation annexes large areas of China because of the objections of the rest of the Great Powers.
Such a settlement would keep Russia and Japan busy, friendly and out of each other's hair.
 
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