Russia's Wars

-wars spec to Russia

-Ottoman dynasty dies out when both sides of a succession crisis kill each other

-Giray dynast enthroned, potentates in Maghreb, Egypt, Syria, Albania refuse to recognize it

-Russia, Persia leap in to invade

-resulting in intl crisis

First Circassian War (1841-3)

-Franco-British alliance send armies into Crimea, Circassia to support people there

-French armies do rather better than the OTL Crimean War

-Austria fearing Russian domination leaps in and occupies Wallachia

-while Russia has occupied Moldavia

-and forces Oldenburg to take neutral position in return for pushing its claims in Schleswig-Holstein, it occupies Jever afterwards

-in the end Russia forced to give up Crimea, Circassia to "Ottoman" protection

-but new "Ottoman" polity lacks most Middle Eastern territories, also Albania, and Iraq is now under Persian rule

-Danube internationalized along lines of the Rhine

-Japan (here under shogun rule) invades Korea, draws in troops from Qing Manchuria (and implicitly Russian overlords) against them, and Bai China sends in troops, they clash, resulting in war

-giant, bloody war, ends with Bai China conquering Qing Manchuria and Mongolia and even Russian Manchuria

-Russian veterans return, find things are still shit, officers sympathize with their peasant underlings, form secret societies, main one called "Young Russia"

-also increasing blame towards monarchy

-when tsar attempts to suppress this, brings Young Russians to forefront and they mutiny

-tsar reluctantly issues constitutions, when new elections end up empowering his enemies he tries to coup it

-army says fuck off, coup him back

-drives russia into tumultuous civil war period

-ends with young russians victorious, but with much of colonies broken off, russia spends future years trying to reconquer them

-Central Asian states which broke away during revolution invaded by a Russia which has been reconstructed

-eventual victory

-after a lot of events (democratic order gets coup'd?), Kazakh Autonomous Republic breaks away, Russia responds by invading

-culminates in Russia using a koric bomb (Atomic theory), first time in history, on Almaty in 1973

-with nuclear power having previously been used, other than tests, for energy

-ends up with junta getting overthrown in color revolution, new order initially fights more but lets Kazakhstan, other Turkic states break away eventually