Russia Engages the World, by Cynthia Whittaker, was published in 2003 to accompany an exhibition at the New York Public Library that same year.
Rereading this book, which I bought in 2004, it suddenly dawned on me that much of what I know of history is mainly confined to Western, Egyptian, Chinese, and British Raj history.
Who was the first Russian to sail around the world, in the wake of Ferdinand Magellan (albeit, he was killed by natives in the Philippines) and Sir Francis Drake?
Why is Peter I called Peter the Great, and why is Catherine II called Catherine the Great, in the footsteps of Alexander the Great?
Did Russia send any embassy to the Qing emperor?
All these are covered in this excellent pictorial book.