This alternate (or revised) history article lists monarchs who ruled Moscow and later all of Russia between 1283 and 1917. The list is a historical revision in that many of these rulers live longer lives as a result of the entry of the Renaissance to Russia by way of Ivan Petrov in 1395. With the Renaissance comes Western medicine, and this is obviously applied to the Russian royalty.
The Renaissance also brings Western culture, which not only includes medicine, but fashion among numerous other cultural aspects. So, attached to this list is a gallery of selected Russian rulers ranging from Grand Prince Vasily I to Emperor Nicholas I. As one can see in this gallery, every Russian ruler from Vasily I onward is dressed in Western fashion.
Since all images in this gallery were made from AI (artificial intelligence), there may be some noticeable errors in how accurately the rulers are depicted compared with how they will look in an alternate timeline or historical revision with more precise Western fashion. However, how they look in these AI images is much closer to what they will look like in terms of fashion than their appearance in the current timeline or version of history.
It seems to me that it was stupid of the author to include in this list rulers after Peter the Great, since with him Western fashion began to spread in Russia.
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I’m sorry if I didn’t make this very clear before, but there are a couple of reasons why I chose to include rulers of Russia who came after Peter the Great:
Just like I’ve included rulers from before 1395 (and preceding Vasily I), I thought I’d give more of a background behind the rulers of Russia dating up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 instead of Peter.
Since in this revision of history Western culture and fashion came to Russia by way of the Renaissance in 1395 with Ivan Petrov and Vasily I, instead of during the turn of the 18th century with Peter, Russia would be a bastion for Western culture for centuries longer than in history as we know it. Therefore, it would actually make sense that Russia officially adopt the Gregorian calendar in place of the Julian calendar during the reign of Catherine the Great in 1776, instead of in 1917 with the Russian Revolution which deposed Nicholas II. We can also see Nicholas I lacking a mustache in the gallery; and we can assume that during the Imperial era Saint Petersburg is a joint capital with or secondary capital to Moscow, or maybe just a major city in Russia where the emperors and empresses have some of their residences, with Moscow remaining the only capital.
