Knowing Russian cooking I haven't been impressed at all...

It took me a long time to find a good Russian cookbook. This is the best one I discovered so far.
I was born in Russia, however, never learned how to cook Russian food. I missed my grandmother's cooking from my childhood. So, I started looking... "Taste of Russia" & "Please to the Table" are wonderful cookbooks with great recipies. However, they are not the recipies I remember my grandmother cooking. "The Art of Russian Cuisine" includes almost all the recipies I could think of.
I definitely recommend this book to those of you who wants to taste the real Russian food, the one that Russians cook daily or for holidays.

A treasury of over 500 recipes including fish, poultry, appetizers, meat, veggies, soups, dumplings, desserts, breads, etc.

Particulary impressive and grand are the sturgeon recipes, especially Sturgeon with mushroom and crabmeat sauce. Also, particularly fond of the pel'meni!

For dessert, the Tula Spice Cakes are delightful.

Thorough, well presented exploration of Russian cuisine, with ample instructions with ingredients that are easy to acquire.