Start with high-confidence russian history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy
Alexandra
Carolly Erickson
Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie
Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy Roberts
The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1)
Philip Haythornthwaite
The Romanov Sisters
Helen Rappaport
The Oak and the Larch
Sophie Pinkham
The Gun
C. J. Chivers
Dead Mountain
Donnie Eichar
Rasputin
Frances Welch
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
The Last Tsar
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
The Sinner and the Saint
Kevin Birmingham
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Douglas Brunt
Russian Grenadiers and Infantry 1799-1815
Laurence Spring
