During the late 19th/early 20th century Russia became notorious for its attempts to acquire a warm water port in the Asia-Pacific region. In the 1890s there was sort of a squabble between Germany, Japan and the U.S. to obtain colonies in the Pacific, could the Russian Empire have potentially thrown its hat in the ring in this squabble too? A feasible scenario in which Russia gains Pacific concessions could be after the Spanish-American War, in which Spain sells its remaining Pacific colonies to Russia as opposed to Germany as it did in OTL. Would the Russians have been able to establish a warm water port in the Pacific or would the islands be unable to support such a base? After the Russian Revolution, would one of the Allied Powers such as the U.S. or Japan have seized the islands? There's no way the Bolsheviks can get to them.