Marc Craste, the brains behind Jo Jo in the Stars and the Pica Towers series, has a new short out called Stuck on a Sunday. You can see some of it at the Studio AKA site (it's a Flash site - click on the Stuck on a Sunday bit on the lower left). Great atmospheric animation as always from MC MC!
Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.
In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.
Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.
So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.