>>512790444
What the fuck did I read?
Alaska in those days was a desolate Arctic wasteland.
It is difficult for an ordinary person to survive there, and keeping an army capable of advancing through thousands of kilometers of deserted forests is generally suicide.
For Nikolai, it was just another useless piece of land.
During the reign of Alexander 2, it was necessary to find money for the modernization of Russia and the construction of railways, so when we were offered 7 million dollars for the icy desert, the government immediately agreed, and the railway was built with this money.
It was only later that huge deposits of gold and oil were discovered in Alaska.