I'm not interested in this nonsense. With the same success, you can now go out into the street and scream that Africa belongs to you, but Africa will never know about it.
By the way, Moscow, when it "sold" Alaska at that time, did not even own the Don and the Volga. One Traveler noted that in the center of modern Moscow then there were swamps where poganus gathered. And Saint Petersburg was built in the 18th century.
Whether it was a separate state is also a question, their flags were from Scotland and Britain, the queens were Prussian.