They do invent some of those "old tradition", of course. After an increasingly un-traditional period has ended in carnage, people really do return to tradition. The early Empire is also a time of religious revival - state-backed. (Few people realise just how close it came to that, in the early '90s.) So I would certainly entertain the possibility that European Russia ends up in the "Western" sphere, while everything beyond the Urals is beyond the Empire's reach. Now, I don't give Russia post-Putin very good odds for stable governance. The Romans took the Western, Hellenised bits of the Seleukid Empire, and the final border ended up further East. Click to expand.Expanding on this a bit (because I'm the sort of person who always has more to say, go figure):
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