Hi flow and welcome to the site.
Whatever is going to be said by the others I'd ask if you know what Russian is in fact and which type of learner you are (see below).

Some of the learners are eager to start using the language asap, so they prefer to rush through the alphabet and basic grammar and skip to words and phrases right away. After they have messed with them for a while they eventually realize they don't understand how the phrases and sentences are composed, which reveals the lack of basic knowlege and they decide to get back to the basics. When they delve into it a bit deeper they understand that Russian is a HELL HUGE TANGLED MASS of information, like all those Russian cases, aspects, endings, prepositions, rules and exceptions, etc, etc. They find themselves absolutely unready to give it so much time and effort (and possibly money) and just give up in frustration, not going to wrack their brains about this serious stuff any longer.
Others start learning it from the very basics, "digesting" the language bite by bite, sorting and arranging the data through the virtual shelves in the brains, with each new piece of information naturally adding to the knowlege they already have. This needs the academic method to be applied, which needs a tutor or a class.
The third type of learners is similar to the first one with the exception that they have enough willpower and interest to keep up even when they become aware WHAT IN FACT the Russian language is for a learner (a pain in the .... back, actually, to say the least).