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A Russian empire centered TL by yboxman. You can read it here.

A list of all the official installments of the timeline

#1 - An execution preempted: A lethal Otsu incident - Czarevitch Nikolai Alexandrovich has a bad day.

#2 - Montezuma: First version, Revised version - Musings of Emperor Meiji and meeting with George Alexandrovich.

#3 - Railroaded - A funeral in Vladivostok

#4 - Russian Boiler room - Russo-Japanese negations

#5 - In the shadow of the Lion - The convention of Vladivostok

#6 - Homecoming - George Alexandrovich's nightmares and meeting with father.

#7 - Three weddings and a funeral

#8 - 1893

#9 - 1894a: The Siberian Pale

#10 - 1894b: Talking bout the revolution

#11 - 1894c: The Armenian question

#12 - 1894d: War and peace

#13 - 1894e: Road to war

#14 - Cry havoc... - No more peace in Asia

#15 - ...and unleash the dogs of war - Fog and fleets

#16 - Never bring a battleship to a knife fight - Battle of the Yellow Sea

#17 - Kuropatkin's gambit - War in Ottoman Armenia

#18 - Yalu bound - No battle plan ever survives contact with the unknown enemy: Pyongyang edition

#19 - Domestic affairs / Home front - First version, Revised version - Elena and George

#20 - Endgame - The end of the Eastern question

#21 - Brave leopard commander Lee-Si-Tzin - Crossing the Yalu

A list of important historical figures in the timeline

POV Characters: * Nikolai Alexandrovich of Russia AKA 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 a NCO in the Armenian volunteers under Nikolai Yudenich

* Mustefa Kemal: As the Ottoman empire crumbles, Kemal is still a teenager and is left adrift in Saloniki. What does fate lay in wait for Ata Turk?

* Ahmed Djemal AKA Djemal Pasha: Not known for his military acumen OTL, the junior millitary engineering officer finds responsibility, and perhaps greatness, thrust upon him as Russian forces advance into Eastern Anatolia.

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 Turkmenistan post is securing Russia's gains in Eastern Anatolia 20 years ahead of schedule- using many of the same methods he used OTL.

Non historical POV characters: Ito Harabe- A Japanese infantryman providing a view of the Sion-Japanese war from the trenches.

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