中文简介：

俄罗斯是世界上面积**的国家，拥有**的核武库。一千年来，这个边界不断变化的多面体国家被称为 Rus、莫斯科公国、俄罗斯帝国和苏联。三十年前，它被重新塑造为俄罗斯联邦。

俄罗斯不是一个谜，但它的过去充满暴力、悲剧，有时辉煌，当然也很复杂。像其他人一样，俄罗斯人不断地改写他们的历史。他们重视爱国故事，有时这些故事更多的是植根于神话而不是现实。

专家、前大使Rodric Braithwaite将事实与虚构的内容结合起来，发现俄罗斯故事的根源所在。

英文简介：

Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago it was reinvented as the Russian Federation.

Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality.

Expert and former ambassador Rodric Braithwaite unpicks fact from fiction to discover what lies at the root of the Russian story.