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I do not know if this has been proposed before, but here it goes: what if the then Tsarevich Nicholas had been killed in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otsu_Incident ? The potential consequences are very interesting: a severe Russo-Japanese crisis (possibly leading to an earlier Russo-Japanese war?), and of course the succession to the imperial throne by Nicholas' brother George in 1894, and then, if butterflies do not intervene to prevent his early death, of Michael.
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