Russian alphabet
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The Russian alphabet is the writing system used to write the Russian language.
Historical evolution of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, until the 19th century
(Motti, 1890)
Early Cyrillic alphabet
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The Early Cyrillic alphabet, also called classical Cyrillic or paleo-Cyrillic, is an alphabetic writing system that was developed in Bulgaria in the Preslav Literary School during the late 9th century
Russian alphabet
…The earliest evidence of Russian writing culture comes from birch-bark manuscripts dating to the 11th–15th centuries and written by laypeople. The early Cyrillic alphabet had 44 letters, many of which were used for numerals. The alphabet was adapted to Russian from Old Church Slavonic, but over time it came to contain…
View of the cave monastery near the village of Krepcha, Opaka Municipality in Bulgaria. Here is the oldest Cyrillic inscription dated of 921.
The Cyrillic alphabet on birch bark document № 591 from ancient Novgorod (Russia). Dated to 1025–1050 AD.
Codex Suprasliensis
Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander