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From what I've read about the Great Northern War, Sweden's defeat was as hard as it got without the capital being conquered and explains their massive losses and death of their empire but also that Peter I of Russia was quite the vacillating and shy thing when it came to attacking and such and...

What it says on the title. In OTL The Great Turkish War was the Ottomans' first significant and it is fair to say they never truly got back to where they were before the Second Siege of Vienna but they nonetheless managed to recover well enough from it and remained very much a great power until...

The great northern war cemented that Mother Russia is here to stay, something that wouldn't be possible without Tsar Peter the Great. Now there are countless threads asking what if sweden won. This is ultimately something of that question, but I have two scenarios, both involving the death of...

How could the Kingdom of Yugoslavia survive to 2017? I figure it would need to federate on some level. Perhaps avoid Nazi occupation. That did a number on the monarchy's survivability. Although a lot of stunts before that hit it's creditability. Ethnic tensions would have to be addressed of...

Peter I of Russia was a young who tried to implement various reforms at the start of his reign, which caused wide spread rebellion in his realm. After he was ousted in 1685 the Tsardom of Russia collapsed into smaller states and The "Boyar period" began. How would the world differ today if...