===== An execution preempted: A lethal Otsu incident ===== A Russian empire centered TL by [[offtopic:yboxman]]. You can read it [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=369488|here]]. ---- ==== Chapters ==== **A list of all the official installments of the timeline** #1 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11424606|An execution preempted: A lethal Otsu incident]] - Czarevitch Nikolai Alexandrovich has a bad day. #2 - Montezuma: [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11426936|First version]], [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11476609|Revised version]] - Musings of Emperor Meiji and meeting with George Alexandrovich. #3 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11476710|Railroaded]] - A funeral in Vladivostok #4 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11481272|Russian Boiler room]] - Russo-Japanese negations #5 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11491999|In the shadow of the Lion]] - The convention of Vladivostok #6 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11502261|Homecoming]] - George Alexandrovich's nightmares and meeting with father. #7 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11505069|Three weddings and a funeral]] #8 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11513820|1893]] #9 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11523445|1894a: The Siberian Pale]] #10 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11531641|1894b: Talking bout the revolution]] #11 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11531952|1894c: The Armenian question]] #12 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11532191|1894d: War and peace]] #13 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11535909|1894e: Road to war]] #14 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11536930|Cry havoc...]] - No more peace in Asia #15 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11549614|...and unleash the dogs of war]] - Fog and fleets #16 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11553442|Never bring a battleship to a knife fight]] - Battle of the Yellow Sea #17 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11566034|Kuropatkin's gambit]] - War in Ottoman Armenia #18 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11574474|Yalu bound]] - No battle plan ever survives contact with the unknown enemy: Pyongyang edition #19 - Domestic affairs / Home front - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11579271|First version]], [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11595940|Revised version]] - Elena and George #20 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11608336|Endgame]] - The end of the Eastern question #21 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11618139|Brave leopard commander Lee-Si-Tzin]] - Crossing the Yalu #22 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11639593|The Saviors of Saloniki]] #23 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11652008|Heroic measures]] #24 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11667416|Ghosts of Bismark past]] - Another Berlin Conference Map #1 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11677382|Anatolia and the Mashriq 1896]] Map #2 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11683235|The Balkans 1896]] Map #3 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11683280|Ethnographic map of Macedonia in the the 1890s]] #25 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11690831|On stranger currents]] - A Russian fleet in the Red Sea #26 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11704185|Antiochus and Gaius]] #27 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11735048|Many happy returns]] #28 - [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-11977678|Zemlya]] ---- ==== Dramatis Personae ==== **A list of important historical figures in the timeline** POV Characters: * Nikolai Alexandrovich of Russia AKA OTL Nicholas II - George's ill-fated brother. * George Alexandrovich of Russia - the main character of the timeline. The POD is him avoiding his OTL tuberculosis infection which prevented him from joining his brother's eastern voyage. * Elena of Montenegro - the bright bride. * Sergei Witte - architect of Russia's railroad expansion, financial reform and "Pivot to Asia", has a closer and more stable relation with his emperor ITTL. * Mutsuhito of Japan aka Emperor Meiji - not as lucky as IOTL. * Yuan Shikai - still too ambitious for everyone's good. * Seyid Riza - a Zaza Alevi leader from Dersim in Eastern Anatolia. * Hrayr Dzhoghk - Armenian Revolutionary federation leader, now an NCO in the Armenian volunteers under Nikolai Yudenich. * Mustafa Kemal: As the Ottoman empire crumbles, Kemal is still a teenager and is left adrift in Saloniki. What fate lays in wait for Ata Turk? * Ahmed Djemal AKA Djemal Pasha: Not known for his military acumen OTL, the junior military engineering officer finds responsibility, and perhaps greatness, thrust upon him as Russian forces advance into Eastern Anatolia. * Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak Non PoV historical characters: * Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia aka Emperor Alexander III. - Their father. The Shadow of the Giant lies heavily over his son and the Russian empire * Kuropatkin - The sometimes brilliant General has received an early appointment as War minister. * Nikolai Yudenich - This rarely competent Russian general, and Kuropatkin's crony from their Turkestan post is securing Russia's gains in Eastern Anatolia 20 years ahead of schedule - using many of the same methods he used OTL. * Stepan Osipovich Makarov - the brilliant admiral Non historical PoV characters: Ito Harabe - A Japanese infantryman providing a view of the Sino-Japanese war from the trenches. ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[19th century|19th century Timelines Main Directory]]**