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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 ...
Lubok depicting a peasant making lapti (Russian bast shoes). Close-up of a modern lapti-maker, using a wooden shoe last and cotton round braid . Most shoes of stiffer bast are woven on the bias , with strips running diagonally, but she is weaving on the grain , with braids running along the sole (see example , and both in one shoe )
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".
A History of the Pronominal Declension in the Novgorod Dialect of Old Russian from the 11th to the 16th Centuries. Savignac, David (1975). Common Slavic *vьx- in Northern Old Russian. Schaeken, Jos (5 November 2018). Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-38942-7. Schallert, Joseph (2024).
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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The story of the letter yat and its elimination from the Russian alphabet makes for an interesting footnote in Russian cultural history. See Reforms of Russian orthography for details. A full list of words that were written with the letter yat at the beginning of 20th century can be found in the Russian Wikipedia .