User blog comment:Kabutsu/Assassin's Creed IV Setting Ideas/@comment-5226133-20121113221942/@comment-1153722-20121113233027

Except that the Russian Assassins actually opposed the Tsardom and aided the people in getting their desired new communist government.

And they aren't gonna use a historical character as the ancestor of a fictional one. Only place we will see that is in Project Legacy, à la Giovanni Borgia.