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Good point. Christianizing doesn't have to mean Russifying, like I assumed in my post. It can be an ethno-nationally diverse pontic steppe region. But Russians/Ukrainians/Ruthenians should be expected to be demographically better off though! So Pechenegs - Christianizing Turkic speakers on...

This implies a Russian colonization/integration/advance to the south (and southeast) centuries early. Does this also naturally lead to earlier crossing of the Urals, and expansion across the northern forest belt, and reaching the Pacific earlier than OTL Russia?