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What if Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich hadn't died of meningitis in 1865, aged 21? As I understand it he was given actual training to rule, meaning he'd likely be more like his father. The reign of his reactionary brother Alexander III, who only got the throne by his brother dying and his father dying in a bomb blast, would be avoided and Alexander II's reforms would stick. OTL's Nicholas II would be Grand Duke Nicholas ITTL, and would be significantly different since Alexander's OTL wife was originally betrothed to his older brother. If Grand Duke Nicholas still marries Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, he'll just be that nephew of the Tsar with the haemophiliac son and the eccentric starets entertained by his wife. Rather than Nicholas the Bloody, he'll be nth in the line to the throne since his uncle Nicholas Alexandrovich, known as Nicholas II in the ATL, will have children and grandchildren of his own.