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In private, his wife addressed him as Nicki, in the German manner, rather than Коля (Kolya), which is the East Slavic short form of his name. The "short name" (Russian: краткое имя kratkoye imya), historically also "half-name" (Russian: полуимя poluimya), is the simplest and most
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
His name is connected to an era in the history of Russian music. Eduard Khil was unique in his extraordinary charm and lyricism, and constant in his professionalism, vocal culture and creative taste. Many of the songs he performed became part of the golden fund of the Russian stage.
A new version of the classic alphabet song has people questioning if they ever knew their ABCs at all. Television writer and comedian Noah Garfinkel took to Twitter on Friday to share a clip of ...
Ivan Matveevich Krasnoshchekov, Ataman of the Don Cossacks.Portrait is from 1761. The term Ataman is a theme of various Russian folk songs (on YouTube)Ataman (variants: otaman, [1] wataman, vataman; Russian: атаман; Ukrainian: отаман) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds.
The Russian surname "Apraksin" (Апраѯінъ; modern: Апраксин) in the Civil Script. Note the variant form of "ksi" (ѯ) in the name is an Izhitsa with a tail. In the Civil Script during Peter the Great's time, Ksi was also written similarly to an izhitsa with a tail. Ksi constituted the number "60" in the Cyrillic numeral system. [5]
Unlike the Russian spelling system, ё is mandatory in the Cyrillic alphabet used by Dungan. In that Sinitic language, the е / ё distinction is crucial, as the former is used such as to write the syllable that would have the pinyin spelling of ye in Standard Chinese , and the latter is used for the syllable that appears as yao in pinyin.
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