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Russian cursive
The hand of Russian letters since the 18th century. The spelling changed in 1918; the hand did not.
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History
Russian handwriting did not begin with the script taught in schools today. It begins with skoropis — literally "rapid writing" — the running chancery hand that clerks used through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for everything a state produces: petitions, land records, court rolls, inventories.
Read the history →Real letters in this hand
Read by FamilyLore, from public archives.
