U.S is a superpower with influence wayyyyy beyond its borders...
Historical superpowers who shaped history are Egyptians, Greeks, Roman empire, Abbasid/Ummayad empire, Ottoman Empire, British/French and so on.
Russians only had one such power..USSR and that too just for 50 to 70 years..
Other Russian 'great powers' weren't even noticeable outside of their own sphere of influence..and were hardly the history-shapers.
Russia always had a HUGE land area..not because it was some awesome power..but because majority of the Russian land on nothern cold ice-plate that nobody gives a shit about anyways.