Anatolii Fomenko published a seriously bizarre multi-volume work which claims the Catholic Church (well, of course!) accomplished the greatest intellectual fraud in history: Tricking everyone into believing that 2,000 years have passed since the time of Christ when in reality it was only 1,000 years. Thus, the crusades were not a fight against Muslims in the Holy Land, but rather an attack against those who crucified Christ! Or something like that. It’s been several years since I read parts of the first volume.
Truly bizarre, profusely illustrated, packed with pseudo-learning and pseudo scholarship and utterly convincing to a growing number of gullible rubes.
Here’s the Amazon.com page for the first of the volumes in the series: https://www.amazon.com/History-mathematical-statistics-Eclipses-Chronology/dp/2913621074/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515975859&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Anatolii+Fomenko There is a lengthy description of the gist of the book.
Russians have a terrible inferiority complex. Fomenko only helps to prove the point.