Sorry, I forgot to answer this part of your message.
You seem to reference Stolypin reforms that arguably came too little too late (but lead to at least 2 million settler arriving to Siberia in 1907-1909 and another million in 1910-1914, compared to a million in the decade prior to 1907 i. e...
These gunboats, steem schooners and steamers are modern fleet that Qing really have nothing to counter.
This is comparable to the fleet used by allies during Second Opium War for example and we all know how it ended. Also I don't claim that Russian gunships would go through Tainjing and storm...
IMHO with Qing being overthrown, China has a pretty slim chance of reestablishing control over East Turkestan aka Xinjiang. In my initial analysis I have definitely underestimated this factor.
In the course of Dungan revolt the entire regions was split into several de-facto independent states...
It is possible, but given a planned marriage of Mary to one of Luxemburgs seems a bit redundant.
I do think that cross-marriage with children of Charles Durazzo as proposed by @material_boy makes a lot more sense (that is Hungarian Ladislaus marrying Joanna and Napoletan marrying Hedwig)
At...
I believe deep Lithuanian raids mostly ended in the first half of XIV century.
Poland was on advance at least since the beginning of Casimir the Great's reign. During his and Louis’ reign Lithuania lost quite a few territories permanently (Przemyśl area in 1344, Halych area in 1349, Chelm and...
It basically was an opportunistic move.
In case China was unable to reconquer Xinjiang, Russia would almost certainly eventually annex the occupied territory (and probably conquer at least part of the remaining East Turkestan). This outcome probably looked quite plausible in 1870s.
In case China...
Well at the very least Bohemia and Poland (and Hungary for that matter) are in the same tier and Croatia was not nearly close to it.
I have a different assessment of Luxemburg-Angevin relations in 1360-1370s: that they were cordial despite the fact that there were certain friction points (as...
I think you are getting a little bit ahead of yourself. Eventually I agree that Capetian Angevins and Luxemburgs are bound to become rivals. I am not sure it will happen in 1370s-1380s though.
After all IOTL Louis the Great himself already was a king of both Hungary and Poland and enjoyed a...
Thank you and sorry if I went a bit overboard with my suggestions. If it is not off topic here are a couple of further thoughts (if it is offtopic, please just say so and I will stop):
1. The privately owned Ural Railway mentioned in my previous post (first going from Perm to Yekaterinburg...
A very interesting PoD.
I do think that there would be some massive changes if Catherine would be male.
1. Marriage of Hedwig would definitely be different from Jogaila and almost certainly from William. Jagailo is pretty much given since Hedwig would not become queen of Poland. Here is why I...
If you mean Manchurian as in Outer Manchurian (aka southern part of Russian Far East centered around the Vladivostok), then it is if course necessary, but its’ acquisition is pre PoD (the Convention of Peking was in 1860).
If you mean Manchurian as in Manchurian Proper there is nothing...
Anne is only third surviving daughter of John the Fearless. So if Philip the Good dies childless, she is behind Mary of Cleves as well as Margaret (who married Arthur de Richemont, constable of France and future duke of Burgundy). There is also Agnes, who is younger than Anne, but is married to...
Voted for this one, although I have noticed the terrible news from the latest update.
But of course even given that Charles III is dead, Ladislaus ITTL seems to have a much, much stronger start:
1. The fact that his father was able to get to Provence almost certainly means that Ladislaus is...
Thanks a lot for an update, it is excellent as always.
I have to admit I don't know many details of the OTL Second Guelders War. From what I can gather while several important details are different ITTL, the overall course of the war as well as its final result is quite close to what happened...