If anyone is interested in truth about Russian History, then I highly recommend the following book: The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism, & Orthodoxy. It was so interesting that I read it in nearly one day.
"This is a book that should be in your library. It is a unique and important work that had to be written. Russia has heretofore been one of the most unfairly maligned nations in the long and distorted history of this world. Now we see the truth" - from the back of the book