Russian + English keyboards

Hi, I would ideally like to have 2 keyboards, English and Russian, and be able to type say with the Russian one and then be able to type latin characters with the other seamlessly without changing any settings on the Mac.
I heard this is not possible with 2 Apple Bluetooth keyboards unless they are quite similar in terms of character layout i.e. Finnish and English, can someone confirm if this is true and likewise if you happen to confirm the opposite it would save a lot of time
If not would any of these solutions work
1. one Apple Bluetooth keyboard and one third party Bluetooth keyboard
2. one Apple wired keyboard and one Apple Bluetooth keyboard
3. two Apple wired keyboards?
Thank you in advance

Grant,
I didn't know I could switch with a shortcut, the reason I asked the question was that it was getting very awkward switching in the menu bar, especially in full-screen programmes but this solves the issue just as well as having a second keyboard (and at less cost)
I now have it set to alt + `
Thank you very much

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