This is seriously weird. I remember reading about it as a possible change point — basically, there was a small chance that the Imperial Russians could have sold Kamchatka to the USA in the 19th Century — and I was sure that I had done something with the idea. But I can’t find anything. Not even a map, and I needed a map.
Does anybody remember me doing something along these lines? I’m kind of at wit’s end on this. Or I’m getting premature senility.