I'm not positive whether this is the correct sub-reddit for this inquiry (r/badhistory?), but I'll try. Years ago, I'd come across an online book by some Soviet historian who had crafted a revisionist world history, completely re-writing events and their contexts, from as far back as ancient Greece, all the way to At Least the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. The conceit of the book was that he had a theory that the ancient world had been "made up", so to say (I believe that was his theory), by folks in the more-modern (Early-Modern?) world, and as if that isn't enough, he further insisted that many of the historical events of the ancient world were actually modern events superimposed upon this "made-up" period in the past, for the purpose, I believe, of sort of rounding-out this otherwise-sparse period.

Other specific aspects of this work which I can still recall included his providing an illustration of, say, the Fall of Troy, which had been made during the Middle Ages, the artist of which had portrayed these Trojans in distinctly Medieval attire (basically, he had drawn them as though they were contemporaries, as folks are wont to do); the Soviet historian had insisted that this "proved" that Troy had actually fallen in modern times, and that the myth was actually an echo of the actual Fall of Constantinople. Other choice tidbits were things such as "Alexander the Great was actually Mehmet the Conqueror", etc etc for hundreds of pages.

Now, I recall neither the name of the historian nor the title of his book. I had stumbled upon it by accident and, as though stunned, proceeded to read through it for hours. Eventually, my digression had to end and I continued my real studies and the bizarre history was more or less pushed to the recesses of my mind. But every once in a while it comes to the fore and I find myself excited all over again by the sheer audacity and outlandishness and quasi-erudition. But, alas, I have never found the source again. Now, however, I have discovered reddit and its wonderful subreddits. So my question is: Who was this man? What was his "great" work? How was he able to create it--delusion, dedication to the propaganda machine, both? What do other historians make of him?

Thank you