The Tsarina stood in the Tsar's Winter palace. Elsa was dressed as elegantly and gracefully as an Empress, because she was one.
She stood neatly by her husband's side as he entertained his generals, and court. Russia had emerged victorious, and this time around with far more gains than the Great War before it.
For decades Russia had played second fiddle to the German Reich. And while they had been rewarded for their loyalty time and again Alaska was far more significant than annexing the Ottoman Empire's northern most borders.
It wasn't just a significant strategic asset filled with oil and natural gas. Nor was it just a warm water port on the other side of the world. No… Alaska was far more significant to the House of Romanov.
It was the symbolic undoing of the House's greatest humiliations. Since the Crimean War, and its disastrous defeat, Russia had been permanently marred by selling its only colony in the new world to the United States.
