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Patriarch Adrian (Russian: Адриан; born Andrey, Андрей; 2 October 1638 – 16 October 1700) [1] was the last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. According to historian Alexander Avdeyev, the future Patriarch Adrian was born in the last days of September 1638.
The Cyrillic script (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɪ l ɪ k / ⓘ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, North Asia, and East Asia, and used by ...
The theory that Glagolitic script was created before Cyrillic was first put forth by G. Dobner in 1785, [1] and since Pavel Jozef Šafárik's 1857 study of Glagolitic monuments, Über den Ursprung und die Heimat des Glagolitismus, there has been a virtual consensus in the academic circles that St. Cyril developed the Glagolitic alphabet, rather than the Cyrillic. [2]
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 January 2025. See also: List of Cyrillic multigraphs Main articles: Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabets, and Early Cyrillic alphabet This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This is a list of letters of the ...
[13] [14] [15] Old Russian is also used to describe the written language in Russia until the 18th century, [16] when it became Modern Russian, though the early stages of the language is often called Old East Slavic instead; [17] the period after the common language of the East Slavs is sometimes distinguished as Middle Russian, [18] or Great ...
Adrian of May (died 875), Scottish saint from the Isle of May, martyred by Vikings; Adrian of Moscow (1627–1700), last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; Adrian of Nicomedia (died 306), martyr and Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian; Adrian of Ondrusov (died 1549), Russian Orthodox saint and wonder-worker
Trekhlebov called Grinevich a "linguist" and "decoder" and argued that the "discovery" of "the oldest Slavic writing" allegedly received support in science, and scientists called this writing "Slavic runic". [17] In the late 1980s, the former geologist and sailor A. S. Ivanchenko wrote that the Slavs, or "Russians", invented phonetic writing.