The Cosmonaut Cat
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As the title says. Have Russia's Fort Ross survive, a bastion of Slavdom in a sea of Anglo-America, and become an independent city-state like Monaco or Andorra.
As the title says. Have Russia's Fort Ross survive, a bastion of Slavdom in a sea of Anglo-America, and become an independent city-state like Monaco or Andorra.
Simply have the Russian-American Company offer the settlement to another potential purchaser in 1849 rather than John Sutter; a member of the Russian aristocracy, who manages to obtain the backing of Imperial Russia to become a tiny protectorate and escape annexation by the USA. ITTL, after the Tsardom falls to the Communist Revolution, Fort Ross effectively becomes an independent city state.
Simply have the Russian-American Company offer the settlement to another potential purchaser in 1849 rather than John Sutter; a member of the Russian aristocracy, who manages to obtain the backing of Imperial Russia to become a tiny protectorate and escape annexation by the USA. ITTL, after the Tsardom falls to the Communist Revolution, Fort Ross effectively becomes an independent city state.
Workable, but once Imperial Russia collapses, you know American pressure to be annexed, likely already present, will almost certainly increase ten thousandfold.