Abstract
The paper represents an overview of the oldest stratum of Russian writings, before the official baptism and official implantation of Cyrillic writing practices. The paper gives exhaustive analyze of epigraphic data, especially the complexes of graffiti in the ancient churches, which reflected the everyday practice of writing in Old Rus’.
Keywords
Ancient Rus’, emergence of writing, writing systems, graphic systems, epigraphic data, ancient Bulgarian inscriptions, Cyrillic alphabet, glagolitic alphabet, graffiti
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