File:Geometry 1708 Russian.GIF
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English: The first page of the first Russian book printed in the "civil script" (гражданский шрифт /graZdansk'ij Sr'ift/) introduced by decree of Peter the Great in 1708.
The book is the Geometry (Геометрия /g'eom'etr'ija/), published in Moscow, March 17, 1708. The language tries to steer away from w:Church Slavonic, but is very different from the literary forms that will have evolved by 1800. Note that the modern Russian letters и, з are not used, and are replaced by i (without dot) and s. Abolished in the initial decree, the two modern letters would be tacitly reinstated within the decade. The letter s soon fell out of use in secular writing, but i lingered until put to rest in 1918. |
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| w:History of the Russian language | The first book printed in the "civil" script, 1708 |
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| current | 07:09, 12 July 2004 | | 714 × 933 (340 KB) | wikimediacommons>Alt6878ggtg | Scanned from А. Шицгал, Русский гражданский шрифт, "Исс& |
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