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Bast shoes have been worn since prehistoric times. Wooden foot-shaped blocks (lasts) for shaping them have been found in neolithic excavations, e.g. 4900 years old. [1] Bast shoes were still worn in the Russian countryside at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Proponents of this concept cite the historically disputed use of a common Old Russian language, close regional political and economic ties, a common spiritual and material culture, a common Russian Orthodox religion, a shared system of law, customs, traditions, and warfare, a common struggle against external enemies and the awareness of the unity of the Rus depicted in the sources as ...
Lestovka with the names of the Apostles the work of the master Jelisaveta Gornitskaya. Lestovka (Russian: лeстовка) is a special type of prayer rope made of leather, once in general use in old Russia, and is still used by Russian Old Believers today, such as the Russian Orthodox Christians and Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church, Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church and Edinoverians, whether ...
Old East Slavic [a] (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, [4] until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. [5] Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages. [6]
Nonetheless, some academic printings (connected with the publication of old works, documents or printings whose typesettings predated the revolution) came out in the old orthography (except title pages and, often, prefaces) up until 1929. [7] Russian – and later Soviet – railroads operated locomotives with designations of "І", "Ѵ" and "Ѳ".
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Western Russian group / Western Ruthenian group / Western Old East Slavs ("Russians" or "Russian group" in the broad sense means Old East Slavic peoples, the common group from where modern ethnic groups or peoples of the Rusinians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians descend and not only Russians in the narrow sense)
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