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In your own view, what would a military Russia/England alliance of the 16th century bring to history?
I was looking at an old history textbook and read a little significant part in a chapter about Russia. In the 16th century, Russia was surrounded by the powerful Swedes, Lithuanians, and Poles in the west, and by the Turks and Crimean Tatars in the south. It is significant that when Tsar Ivan IV (ruled from 1553 to 1584) proposed a military alliance and even suggested marriage to Queen Elizabeth I of England, the king of Poland hastily wrote to Elizabeth and begged her to reject the proposition. The Polish king wrote that “up to now, we could conquer him [Ivan The Terrible] only because he was a stranger to education and did not know the arts”.
I’m now thinking of an alternate outcome based on the above information. What if Elizabeth actually accepted Ivan’s alliance and marriage proposal? What would a Russo-English alliance bring to history? How long would the alliance last? How would this affect England, Russia, and the rest of the world?
that is a hard question and it is too hard to answer.
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