It's an interesting language to learn not so much because of the Cyrillic alphabet. In about a month you get quite used to the alphabet. What is more challenging, and interesting, is the grammar, which is very different from Romance languages, such as English. Because Russian uses endings on words to indicate their role in a sentence (e.g., subject, object, etc.), you can pretty much use any word order and the meaning is the same. It's just a lot of work to memorize all the endings for all the cases.