Russian Republic (Alaska Never Sold - Stalin Murdered 1940 - 21st Century Crisis)

Russian Republic
Российская Республика
*Rossiyskaya Respublika*

1917-1998
Russian Republic; Российская Республика; Rossiyskaya Respublika; ; 1917-1998
	Motto: ; "Последний рубеж"; "Posledniy rubezh"; ("The Last Frontier")
	Anthem: ; "Великая молитва Истинного Русского"; Velikaya molitva Istinnogo Russkogo; ("Great Prayer of the True Russian");
Capital	New Archangel
Official languages	Russian
Demonym	Russian American, Russian Republic
Government	Parliamentary republic
Population
GDP (nominal)	2018 estimate
Currency	New Ruble

The Russian Republic (Russian: Российская Республика, Rossiyskaya Respublika), also known as White Russia in Western sources and Russian America was a country located on the western North America.

The Canadian administrative divisions of Yukon border the state to the east, the U.S. state of California to the south, its most extreme western part is Attu Island, and it has a maritime border with the Russian Mainland to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas – the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean.

White Russia was the seventh largest country in the world.

Russian settlement in Alaska began throughout the late 1700s, and in 1799, Alaska officially became a part of the Russian Empire. As part of its drive to move further east and south, and colonize warmer regions, Russian colonists continue to inhabit and populate eastward and south, eventually reaching as far as Cascadia, where a future Grand Duchy would be formed.

It was ruled directly by the Tsar up until 1860 when Tsar Alexander II put his son, Grand Duke Alexander III under rulership of Alaska, where the Grand Duchy of Alaska was established. As Russian fortifications continued in Cascadia, Alexander III would divide Alaska's central and southern oblasts into the Grand Duchy of the Pacific (OT equivalent: British Columbia) ruled by Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich and the Grand Duchy of Cascadia, ruled by Grand Duke George Alexandrovich.

When the Russian Revolutions broke out, supporters of the Tsar escaped the Grand Duchy of Alaska, where Nicholas II himself and the rest of the Romanovs were able to escape in 1917 when Provisional Government took over the Russian Mainland, and Alexander Kerensky established the Russian Republic. The rest of the White Army lost control of the mainland in the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks.

The downfall of the Provisional Government against the Bolsheviks, resulted in the Provisionals escaping to Russian America as well, specifically Cascadia, where the Provisional Government operated in exile. The Russian Republic became a White and anti-communist stronghold, and attempts by Bolsheviks and fringe communist groups to take Russian America failed.

During the Cold War, the Russian Republic continued to become a haven of ex-Soviet defectors and dissidents, and a bastion of anti-communist Russian culture and was - a very wealthy nation, enjoying high economic ties with Canada and the United States.

In 1998, with the final downfall of the Soviet Union, Russian America was re-united with the Russian Mainland to form modern-day Russia.

History[]

The earliest written accounts indicate that Russians were the first Europeans to reach Alaska. There is an unofficial assumption that Slavonic navigators reached the coast of Alaska long before the 1700s. According to Yuri Knorozov, the Russian language retained some borrowings from the Aztec language: толк (value, from Nahuatl Tzolk — score).

In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev sailed from the mouth of the Kolyma River through the Arctic Ocean and around the eastern tip of Asia to the Anadyr River. One legend holds that some of his boats were carried off course and reached Alaska. However, no evidence of settlement survives. Dezhnev's discovery was never forwarded to the central government, leaving open the question of whether or not Siberia was connected to North America.

In 1725, Tsar Peter the Great called for another expedition. As a part of the 1733–1743 Second Kamchatka expedition, the Sv. Petr under the Dane Vitus Bering and the Sv. Pavel under the Russian Alexei Chirikov set sail from the Kamchatkan port of Petropavlovsk in June 1741. They were soon separated, but each continued sailing east. On 15 July, Chirikov sighted land, probably the west side of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. He sent a group of men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to land on the northwestern coast of North America.

On roughly 16 July, Bering and the crew of Sv. Petr sighted Mount Saint Elias on the Alaskan mainland; they turned westward toward Russia soon afterward. Meanwhile, Chirikov and the Sv. Pavel headed back to Russia in October with news of the land they had found.

In November Bering's ship was wrecked on Bering Island. There Bering fell ill and died, and high winds dashed the Sv. Petr to pieces. After the stranded crew wintered on the island, the survivors built a boat from the wreckage and set sail for Russia in August 1742. Bering's crew reached the shore of Kamchatka in 1742, carrying word of the expedition. The high quality of the sea-otter pelts they brought sparked Russian settlement in Alaska.

Grand Duchy of America (1860-1880)[]

Alexander III 2(revised) — Grand Duke Alexander III, the first Grand Duke of America

In 1860, Alexander II put his son, Grand Duke Alexander III, to rule Russian America, thus forming the Grand Duchy of America (Великое Герцогство Америки). In Alaska, Alexander III instituted liberal reforms independent of his father Tsar Alexander II. This would begin Russian America's reputation for having political and cultural autonomy, providing the impetus for its role in becoming a haven for the White Movement during the Russian Civil War, and eventually, the breakaway Russian Republic.

The Grand Duchy of America had always been somewhat separated from the rest of Russia, politically and culturally. The Grand Dukes of America, as well as its citizens have always enjoyed autonomy and Russian America often became a getaway location for Russians wanting to escape the drama of everyday life in the Mainland. Grand Duke Alexander III received permission from Tsar Alexander II to build many lodges in Russian America. One of Russia's earliest luxury resorts, the Imperial Inn (Императорская ложа), was established in Alaska with a couple more royal lodges being built in Cascadia.

Grand Duchies of Cascadia and Pacifica (1880-1917)[]

The Grand Duchy of America had grown extremely large, therefore was split into three separate Grand Duchies. The territories governed from Sitka became known as the Grand Duchy of Alaska. Therefore in 1880, Alexander II appointed Grand Duke George Alexandrovich to rule over Cascadia, and Grand Duke Michael to become to become ruler of the territories south of Alaska and north Cascadia, what would become the Grand Duchy of Pacifica (Великое герцогство Пацифика).

Russian Revolutions[]

Massive migrations to Russian America[]

When the Russian Revolutions began to rage, Alaska, Cascadia and Pacifica began receiving influxes of migrants distraught from the war. Many migrants from the mainland saw Russian America as a safe haven from the political turmoils of the mainland.

However, it is during the Russian Civil War, fought between the Red Army and the White Army, and the White Army and Provisional Government's ensuing loss against the Bolshevik Reds that led to their expulsion, and thus, massive migration from the Mainland and into Russian America, where the White Army would establish a near-unbreakable stronghold under the leadership of Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich.

Thanks to the help of various White Russian fighters, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were evacuated to Alaska, before the rest of the White Army followed, via a fighting retreat. This would culminate in one of the largest retreats in history. As a result, Lavr Kornilov, Anton Denikin, Nikolai Markov, Alexander Kolchak, Pyotr Wrangel, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and the White generals survive as do Georgi Lvov, Victor Chernov and Alexey Pershekhonov of the Provisional and anti-Bolshevik Left.

Despite numerous attempts by the communists and Bolsheviks to conquer Russian America, those attempts were futile and in 1921, Lenin reluctantly accepted that Russian America was a White stronghold, and as in his memoir, "...had become the stronghold of the imperialists".

Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich and the Romanovs agreed to step back from politics, yet - they would still retain economic influence in Russian America.

Republic proclaimed - 1917[]

After the Romanovs fled to Alaska under the care of Grand Duke Kiril Vladimirovich, Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional Government took over the Russian Mainland. However, they too would collapse under the weight of the Russian Civil War, and found themselves in conflict against the Bolsheviks, also on the losing side, in which they fled to Russian America as well.

Most Provisionals joined the White Movement. Kerensky still considered himself the President of the Russian Republic (now in exile). Kerensky attempted to unite the peoples of the White Movement, in Alaska.

However, Alexander Kerensky was not well-liked amongst the people, and the retreating White generals were dismayed to see him leading the breakaway nation due to him being a socialist, and many religious clergy suspected him of being a closeted communist upon learning that he had sold weapons to the Bolsheviks. The Romanovs convinced Nikolai Markov to overthrow Kerensky, to which he did. Therefore, in October of 1918, Markov led the coup against Kerensky, leaving the Prime Minister position empty.

Meanwhile, in the former Grand Duchy of Cascadia, many Provisionals not associated with the White Movement, and anti-Bolshevik Leftists made it their home. In hopes of keeping a united opposition against the Bolsheviks, the fleeing Provisionals or Socialist Revolutionaries did not bother to go to war against Grand Duke George II Alexandrovich.

Victor Chernov had actually enjoyed cordial relations with Grand Duke George II.

Upon the arrival of of Anton Denikin, Lavr Kornilov and Alexander Kolchak, they agreed that the interfighting within the White Movement caused them to lose the war in the mainland in the first place. Coincidentally, with the arrival of Georgy Lvov, Victor Chernov and Alexey Pershekhonov, the emigres of Cascadia noticed the same thing.

It is at this point, when anti-Bolshevik socialists would become part of the broader White Movement and agreed to cooperate with the other anti-Bolsheviks.

Therefore, the leaders of the White Movement met in Probedagrad (OT equivalent: Vancouver), and signed the Probedagrad Accord (Пробедаградский договор). It is in this accord that the Constituent Assembly was revived, and the political nature in the Russian Republic began to resemble a democratic one. It is also in this accord that the White Movement was truly solidified.

Pavel Milyukov became voted in as the first President of the Russian Republic, with Georgy Lvov returning as the Prime Minister. At this time, the Kadets (Constitutional Democratic Party) has become the Russian Republic's most prominent political party, while considered part of the White Movement, did not overtly cater to radical White Movement leaders or monarchists, and did not trigger the radical opposition from socialists and leftists, who maintained their dominance in southern Cascadia, while the radical White Movement retained its influence over the military and the northern regions of Pacifica, as well as the whole of Alaska.

In 1920, Pyotr Wrangel safely arrived in the Russian Republic with Milyukov's aid. In this timeline, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg agrees with the Asiatic Cavalry to retreat into Manchuria and re-group with other emigres there. It is from Manchuria where Ungern-Sternberg, his Russian wife and his infant son Mikhail, as well as the remnants of the Asiatic Cavalry made their escape into Russian America.

Alexander Kolchak, Anton Denikin, Lavr Kornilov, Pyotr Wrangel and Roman von Ungern-Sternberg re-inforced the Russian Republic's defenses, and created the United White Guards (Объединенная белая гвардия), a well-organized military and paramilitary coalition aimed specifically at routing out communists, or the OBG, whom many became covert agents in the Soviet Union to conduct rescue operations for people wanting to escape Bolshevik Russia.

After the arrival of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the Russian Republic's Ministry of Defense was created from the OBG. Although he was voted in to become its leader, he turned down the role to go an establish a military force specifically for the Romanovs, not wanting to cooperate with socialists and leftists, as even he too, feared that his mental instability would reflect in the political landscape.

Therefore, Alexander Kolchak became the 1st Defense Minister of the Russian Republic. Ungern-Sternberg establish the Royal Guards, and modeled it after the British force of the same name.

Interwar Period - continued migrations[]

In 1924, Pyotr Wrangel succeeded Milyukov as President of the Russian Republic with Nikolai Yudenich as his Prime Minister, in which the Russian Republic again, comes under White sway and from this point on, the Socialist Revolutionaries and other anti-Bolshevik leftists gradually receded from the politics of the Russian Republic as the environment had grown increasingly anti-socialist.

This is when Wrangel strengthened ties with British Canada and the U.S., in which the two superpowers gave massive amounts of aid in helping Wrangel built New Archangel as the "New Moscow".

Construction of the White Kremlin began in 1924. The Russian Republic, British Canada and the United States fomented close military ties.

Many ex-Tsarists, who had joined the Red Army in hopes of escaping the Red Terror (only to be victimized by it), once-again, fled to Russian America en masse, where they would again, be screened and this time - to enforce loyalty towards the White Movement.

Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow fled to Alaska, while Metropolitan Antony set up in his abode in Karlovici, Yugoslavia. In 1925, after much rebuilding, and help under American and British fundings, Patriarch Tikhon set up the independent Patriarchate of New Archangel, which, would later become the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

It is via the New Archangel Patriarchate that Russian Orthodox and White diaspora would answer to, rejecting the Moscow Patriarchate.

Many pro-monarchists suggested a new "House of Wrangel", to which President Wrangel soundly rejected, stating that it would trigger another bloody revolution, and allow the Bolsheviks to conquer and divide the White Movement.

"Although I consider the monarchists brothers-in-arms against the Bolsheviks, but it is already established that Nicholas II is the Tsar of Russia, and I am the President of Russia, and it is agreed upon that Russia is a democratic republic. Such intentions for me, or any non-Romanov to become the new Tsar of Russia will only be detrimental, and allow the Bolsheviks to exploit whatever bloody civil war would ensue in such an event."

Pyotr Wrangel used this gold to help the Kingdom of Yugoslavia develop as well, contributing to the renovating of the Great Fortress (later the Red Fortress after the Yugoslav communists took it over).

Alexander Kolchak succeeded Pyotr Wrangel, with Lavr Kornilov as his Prime Minister, with Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as the Defense Minister and Victor Chernov as the Minister of Agriculture. At this point in time, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg made a reluctant decision to cooperate with non-monarchists.

Russian-American scouts in the Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR reported to President Kolchak of the on-goings of Stalin's Great Purge. Russian American scout general, Vasily Boldyrev, stated, "Stalin, has gone mad, he has lost his mind. The communists are really making every effort they can to destroy Old Russia."

Thus, General Boldyrev came up with a new idea to Kolchak, Denikin, Kornilov and Ungern-Sternberg to begin an official secretive military rescue operation, to help many Great Purge victims migrate to the Russian Republic.

Between 1931-1937, many more ex-Red Army generals, ex-communists and ex-NKVD members were transported into the Russian Republic, helping further-strengthen its armed forces. These people had to swear an oath to renounce communism and Stalin.

In 1939, scouts sent by President Kolchak infilitrated the ranks of Soviet intelligence, these scouts partook in the "capture" of Yevgeny Miller in Paris, however, ended up safely smuggling him into the Russian Republic, where he Russified his surname into "Melnikov".

During the Winter War, Kolchak sent aid towards Finland to combat the Soviet invasion, joining Scandinavian volunteers, where White Russians formed half of the Volunteer Forces. Finland would eventually end up joining Scandinavia, and White Russian volunteers in Scandinavia played a pivotal role in providing translation services for the Scandinavian forces.

World War II[]

Although choosing to join neither the Axis or the Allies, President Kolchak and the Russian Republic played a "double agent" role, supporting the Axis at times, and supporting the Allies at other times.

Unlike Hitler, Kolchak simply wanted to re-conquer the mainland for White Russia. Kolchak was friendly with the Axis at first, however, upon discovering what Hitler planned for Slavs, Kolchak withdrew support, but continued to aid Scandinavia. Kolchak concluded that Hitler was just as evil as the communists and Stalin, and questioned the true motives behind the dictator feud between Hitler and Stalin.

Eventually, Kolchak continued military rescue operations in the Russian Mainland, upon news from military forces. Commander Nina Bagration of the Deception Battalions, had reported to Kolchak, "It is truly no longer safe to for Russians in their own Motherland, you were either murdered by the Stalinists or the Nazis, what kind of madness has Satan thrown?"

One of Kolchak's spy troops, eventually encountered Andrey Vlasov, who had been in service with the Nazis. After the Nazis went on the defensive, he helped Vlasov escape to the Russian Republic, where Vlasov publicly renounced his service to the Nazis, and re-dedicated his war efforts against the Soviets.

In 1943, Kolchak was replaced by Anton Denikin as the President of the Russian Republic, with Mikhail Romanovich as his Prime Minister - one of the sons of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg. Anton Denikin would become last of the original White Movement to be either the head of state or government of the Russian Republic.

Cold War[]

During the Cold War, the Russian Republic continued its anti-communist rhetoric, but chose not to become a NATO member, and as a matter of fact, stood by policies opposed to by both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Despite being regarded as a de facto NATO state and fully-committed Western ally, the Russian Republic had its own fair share of troubled relations with the West.

The first strain in relations with the rest of the Western Allies came when President Denikin refused to hand over Andrey Vlazov, and other members of the pro-Axis Russian Liberation Army. NATO and Western leaders feared another ultranationalist uprising in the Russian Republic, one that could, eventually lead to the creation of a Nazi Germany-like Russian superstate that would invade western Canada and the Pacific U.S. states.

The early post-World War II era was also that of warming of relations between the Russian Republic and the Soviet Union, in which President Denikin and Soviet leader Viktor Baburin promoted dialogue between White Russian and Soviet leaders. Denikin and Baburin signed the Alaska Trade Agreement (Торговое соглашение Аляски), allowing for small-scale economic ties between the two nations. However, after Viktor Baburin, relations returned to their hostile status quo.

Nikolai Annenkov succeeded Denikin as president, with Alexander Benadiktov as his Prime Minister. This would begin the "New Era" in Russian American history, when leaders of the original White Movement no longer became presidents/prime ministers. In response to Kruschev's threats against the West, President Annenkov came up with a new ploy for a resurgent empire of Russian anti-communists, and that was by re-uniting and re-connecting the Emigre communities worldwide.

Despite being somewhat Western-friendly, even NATO leaders feared that President Annenkov was using his cooperation with NATO to eventually invade western Canada and even northern California with a "New Russian Empire", similar to Hitler's Third Reich idea. Some NATO leaders even referred to President Annenkov as "Fuhrer Nikolai of the Russian Reich". Many Russians from the Russian Republic had become dual citizens with the United States and accumulated lots of wealth, settling in northern California.

It during the Annenkov presidency that the Russian Republic began to pose a credible threat to Soviet hegemony as the center of Russian influence worldwide. Annenkov resembled other nationalist leaders to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, whom Annenkov often-not saw as his main influencer, many even consider Annenkov to be the "Russian de Gaulle". Annenkov openly referred to himself as Kruschev's worst nightmare, stating that a Soviet invasion of the Russian Republic will mimic the Scandinavian-Soviet war in its outcome.

Nikolai Annenkov selected Andrey Vlazov to become the Defense Minister of the Russian Republic, which drew outrage from both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. However, Annenkov's ultra-nationalistic policies, and his pogroms against Old Believers and the Asiatic community of the Russian Republic (composed of emigres from the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics), caused his Prime Minister, Oleg Nabokov to turn on him and depose him in a bloodless coup.

Oleg Nabokov, a descended of Vladimir Nabokov, and an independent, succeeded Annenkov as president. As part of the New Era, President Nabokov institute progressive conservative policies in the Russian Republic, and is known as one of the founding fathers of progressive conservatism in modern Russia. In-so-much while President Nabokov supported the Russian Republic's Christian heritage and absolute resistance to communism, he also supported women's rights and passed women's suffrage laws. Nabokov was also an environmentalist, who wished to protect the nature preserves of Cascadia, passing stiff environmental laws against pollution and littering.

President Nabokov had huge respect for the Old Believers, and passed autonomy rights laws protecting Old Believer and Native American lands.

Following assassination attempts in the Russian Republic by the KGB, President Nabokov retaliated by sending assassins into the Soviet Union, against Leonid Brezhnev. Russian American assassins successfully killed 7 KGB agents, and escaped.

In the Bering Strait, there was also an incident in which Soviet naval forces, disguised as civilian cruise ships, attempted to carry out an attack on the Russian Republic's forces in the Bering Strait, leading to near-confrontation between NATO and the Soviet Union in the North Pacific.

It is at this point when President Nabokov ordered that the Russian Republic begin a nuclear weapons program, something that unnerved both the Warsaw Pact and NATO. In 1981, the Russian Republic possessed 10 nuclear warheads, and built 5 nuclear-capable naval submarines.

End of the republic, Russian re-unification, 1998[]

The downfall of the CPSU in the Soviet Union opened the doors for re-warming of relations between the Russian Republic and the new Soviet Union, now under the perestroika and glasnost policies of Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Reunification Movement (Движение за воссоединение) was a political movement that sprung up on both nations, although with no single political ideology in mind, and thanks to President Gorbachev allowing a multi-party system, this movement was allowed to operate in the Soviet Union, event if it possibly meant the destruction of Soviet culture altogether.

However, people in the Russian Republic had no interest in being under a socialist regime. Vasily Belinsky repeatedly told Soviet leaders what would have to happen for a reunification of the Russian people. There in 1996, when Boris Pokrovsky became president of the Soviet Union, he and President Belinsky agreed to create the Transitionary Council (Переходный совет), a governing body overseeing the terms of re-unification modeled after the historical Provisional Government and General Assembly.

One of the terms was the changing of the national flag back to the tricolor, and the coat-of-arms as well, and ridding government and civil public facilities of communist symbols. In addition, White Movement figures would become repatriated as national heroes of Russia. In addition, the future Autonomous Republic of Alaska, which would take place of the White Parliament, would get to use autonomy rights to laws to ban communist, socialist and Soviet symbols, and teach the Russian Civil War from the White point of view.

President Pokrovsky, and leaders of the Russian SFSR inked in their agreement in 1997 in both the intent to re-unite was announced. On December 31, 1997, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Parliament of the Russian Republic both announced the cessation of their states, and the Transitionary Council became the new governing body of what would finally become, the the re-unified Russian state on January 1, 1998 at midnight. This would achieve the event in Russian history known as the Reunification.

On January 1, 1998, all Soviet flags were taken down from public and military buildings, and replaced with the Russian tricolor, and the Bering Blockade commenced, in which the maritime borders between the Russian Republic and the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and boats filled with celebrating citizens freely crossed into the waters of what were once, enemy Russian states.

Vasily Belinsky would become the Prime Minister of Russia, with Boris Pokrovsky as the President.

Economy[]

The economy of the Russian Republic was multi-faceted, and thanks to its economic links with Canada, the United States and the European Union - was very prosperous despite its small population. Oil, gold and tourism were its 3 largest sources of revenue. The Russian Republic was a very resourceful land. For its early history, the Russian Republic was an agricultural nation.

During the presidency of Pyotr Wrangel, Russian Republic soldiers accidently discovered large deposits of gold, which led to the Alaska Gold Rush, or the Russian Gold Rush, to which Wrangel wasted no time exploiting.

Wrangel's forces also discovered massive oil deposits, transforming the Russian Republic into an advanced nation with a healthy economy. White Russian scouts in Soviet Russia continued to help Red Terror, Great Purge and Holodomor victims migrate to the Russian Republic.

The Bela ruble, White Russia's currency, was a high-valued currency, worth $0.86 USD due to the large gold to back it up.

Politics[]

The Russian Republic ran on a parliamentary democracy and much of its society was modeled after French politics and society, in which a president was the head of state, and a prime minister as the head of government. The General Assembly formed the body of the Parliament of the Russian Republic.

Like in France, political elites attended Grand Institutions (грандиозное учреждение), the Russian equivalent of a French grande ecola, which predominated the culture of the Russian Republic. Many of these Grand Institutions were often-not, found from the original White Movement families, including the Romanovs themselves, who are the current owners of the Grand Royal Romanov University, Russia's largest private and most prestigious Grand Institution.

Culture[]

Even during it days as a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire, the culture of the Grand Duchy was always distinct from the Russian Mainland. Being an abode of White Russian culture, the cultures and customs of the Russian Republic were nationalistic and religious. White Russians saw themselves as the true Russians, rejecting the national identity Alaskan, or even White Russian, simply referring to themselves as Russians.

The culture of White Russia was evidently European, having adopted elements of French, Canadian and American culture and lifestyle, while those in the mainland was more Eurasian. The Russian Republic was also home to the world's largest Old Believer community via Cascadia, who for the most part, considered themselves separate from the mainstream White Movement.

It is for this reason that the modern-day Autonomous District of Russian America (where Alaska, Cascadia and Pacifica are located), is home to many far-right ultranationalist anti-communist groups in Russia, known as the "white right", not to be confused with the Western definition and understanding (white supremacy).

Famous Russian Republic-based Grigory Yerofeyev (now considered one of Russia's National Authors) - a staunch Orthodox noted in his book, "There is no two Russias, or Alaskan republic or White republic this, that, there's only Russians, period. I can tell you right now, those that have conquered and plagued the Old [Russian] Motherland are not Russians, we are the Russians."

In addition, unlike the heavily-industrialized Soviet neighbor, the Russian Republic took great pride in preserving the rural and Classical European society.

The Eastern Orthodox Church was considered the sole spiritual body that bound the Russian nation together, however, there was a cultural rift between those who followed the New Archangel Patriarchate and the Old Believers, the two main largest Christian sects. in the Russian Republic. The Old Believers historically see the New Archangel Patriarchate as being a descent of Nikhon.

"Russia" naming dispute[]

During the Cold War, White Russia and the Soviet Union feuded over usage of the Russia name. The term White Russia is a western term, and White Russians did not refer to them as White Russians, but only as Russians, and referred to their new homeland as Russia.

The Russian Republic was simply labeled as Russia in White Russian maps, causing a stirrup with Soviet leaders, who considered the Russian SFSR as having the legal right to use the Russia short name.

International maps however avoided this dispute by simply labeling the Russian Republic as such, or Russian America as its common name.

Religion[]

The Russian Orthodox Church accounted for 80% of the Russian Republic, with Muslims and other Christians forming the rest, namely Lutherans - who tended to be descended from the Baltic Germans, as well as Canadian and American expatriates and their descendants. The Russian Republic considered itself a Christian state, and a protector of Russia's Christian legacy. Christian prayers could be found grafted in the Russian Republic's national anthems and songs.

Of the Russian Orthodox, the New Archangel Patriarchate consisted of 80%, while Old Believers formed the rest of the 20%, mostly in the southern regions. The Old Believers predate the New Archangel Patriarchate by several centuries, having arrived in America even before it was colonized by the Russian Empire due to the persecutions against the Old Believers by the Imperial state.

As for the New Archangel Patriarchate, originally the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, the Russian Republic had its own Russian patriarchate, namely that of New Archangel which formed in the 1940s as a counter to the Moscow Patriarchate, do the latter's loyalty to communists. This New Archangel Patriarchate was who Russian Orthodox outside of Russia answered to, and still even as a republic within Modern Russia, retained its independence from the Moscow Patriarchate.

From time to time, there existed huge cultural rifts between mainstream New Archangel Patriarchate followers and the Old Believers, with those of the former having retained the stories of their Imperial forefathers of the Old Believers being savages.

Islam forms the second largest religious groups. The presence of Islam in the Russian Republic stems from the Cold War, mostly Central Asian and Caucasian immigrants from the Soviet Union escaping anti-Islamic practices by the Kremlin. By the time of the re-unification, Muslims formed the second-largest religious group in the Russian Republic.

Education[]

Education in the Russian Republic was modeled on a hybrid of British, Canadian, French and American-style schooling systems.

Two types of post-secondary institutions existed in the Russian Republic (which today has been adopted by the current Russian state), namely Public Institutions (Общественные учреждения) and Grand Institutions (грандиозное учреждение).

The latter are private and prestigious institutions influenced by the French grande ecola system, normally associated with those interested in politics however like French grande ecolas, are industry-based. Grand Institutions in Russia were often-not, found by the Romanovs or the many prominent White Movement families that have survived through history, due to their involvement with other foreign powers.

Military[]

The Armed Forces of the Russian Republic were the official fighting force, and was a relatively small force backed by NATO. Before re-uniting with the mainland, the armed forces had a total spending budget of $15.5 billion USD, with a personnel total 102,300. It operated 102 aircraft, 37 naval vessels and 470 tanks.

Unlike its larger Soviet neighbor, the military equipment of the Russian Republic was not all indigenous and neither did it have a nuke force. While the aircraft, via the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation was indigenous, other facets of the armed forces were not. During the parliamentary government of Pyotr Wrangel, the Russian Republic began to use Enfield rifles, and other Western weaponry.

However, during the presidency of Mikhail Gorbachev (penultimate last Soviet president), the Kremlin gave the authorization to export weapons to the Russian Republic as part of President Gorbachev's detente policies, Boris Pokrovsky (the last Soviet president), gave the Russian Republic the license to produce Mainland Russian-originated weaponry, including the AKM series.

A lesson learned during the Red Terror, the Russian Republic placed most of its national defense emphasis on private paramilitaries, most often-not, controlled by the Romanov, Romanovich (Ungern-Sternberg) and Petrovich (Wrangel) families. and also had a gun culture very much identical to that of the United States. They often used Confederate ideology for the formation of the Russian Republic. After learning about the Red Terror in the Russian Mainland, Pyotr Wrangel made an amendment of the Constitution of the Russian Republic allowing citizens to own firearms, a law very-much resembling the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights.

In terms of its paramilitary forces, the Russian Republic had 2,300,400 professional paramilitary fighters on standby.