Slavic Gospel
Fragment of a Russian icon in a Kremlin temple. The funny thing is, this text is not in Russian but.. in Bulgarian (one has to be native to realise it).
Christianity came to Russia via southern Slavic (Bulgarian) evangelists; two of them (brothers Cyrill and Methodius) even wrote an alphabet to translate the Gospel form Greek into the prevailing language of Slavic tribes of the time.
Few people in today's Russia know that they are writing in the Bulgarian alphabet, some were told at school that it was written by their tsar Peter I The Great (6-7 centuries later)....
Slavic Gospel
Fragment of a Russian icon in a Kremlin temple. The funny thing is, this text is not in Russian but.. in Bulgarian (one has to be native to realise it).
Christianity came to Russia via southern Slavic (Bulgarian) evangelists; two of them (brothers Cyrill and Methodius) even wrote an alphabet to translate the Gospel form Greek into the prevailing language of Slavic tribes of the time.
Few people in today's Russia know that they are writing in the Bulgarian alphabet, some were told at school that it was written by their tsar Peter I The Great (6-7 centuries later)....