Do you know how Russia sold Alaska to the US? At that time it was Muscovy, it owned land approximately from Peterburg to Moskow and a Hetmanate in Ukraine. 2 Moscow small traders hired a Cossack, who gathered a small detachment and went to Siberia. I don't know what they were doing there, maybe they drank some vodka, but then the Bolsheviks wrote that they had conquered Siberia. But if this gang of ragamuffins conquered Siberia, it does not follow that they were in Alaska. But in the end, the Russians "sold Alaska." They miscalculated, it was necessary to sell the moon in addition.