Civil Script

For the modern Russian alphabet, which uses the Cyrillic script, see Russian alphabet.

The debut, 1708.

The Civil Script (Russian: Гражда́нский шрифт) or, colloquially, the Russian Cyrillic, is a modification of the Cyrillic script introduced by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great in the period from 1708 to 1710 the appearance of Russian books in Western European books of that time, therefore, of early Baroque Franco-Italian antiquity.

Civil Russian font from middle 18th and beginning of 19th centuries

In January 1707, according to a draft probably made by Peter the Great himself. In the first quarter of the 19th century, the civil alphabet was adopted in Serbia and Bulgaria and gradually replaced the Church Slavonic alphabet. The reform of Peter I radically changed the development of the Russian alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet as a whole. The development of the Cyrillic alphabet overtakes the Renaissance period from the development of typography in Western Europe and from the medieval stage, which is located until then, is equated with the late Baroque Latin typography. The genetic link between the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek alphabet has been removed. Prior to this reform, centuries ago, the Cyrillic script of the Venetian term and the orthographic bequest of the Preslav Literary School - followed the Greek calligraphic and typographic tradition.

See also

• Civil alphabet
• Early Cyrillic alphabet
• Government reform of Peter the Great