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There are absolutely non-boring mathematical books by Russian authors. In addition to already mentioned "Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning" by by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrentiev I would add "Elements Of Applied Mathematics" by YA. B. Zeldovich, A. D. Myskis [1]. The latter is really good introduction into math when one needs to apply it in various settings.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichMyskisElementsOfApplied...

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And also there is a more introductory book by YA. B. Zeldovich and I. M. Yaglom "Higher Mathematics for Beginners" [1] that is a fun to read book about calculus.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichYaglomHigherMathematics - for some reason the book at archive.org has extension .pdf , but in fact it is a djvu document, so it has to be opened with DjView instead of a PDF viewer.

The figure on the first page reminds me of SICM

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