Civil Script


The Civil code Russian: Гражда́нский шрифт or, colloquially, the Russian Cyrillic, is a correct of a Cyrillic script provided by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great in the period from 1708 to 1710. The goal was to redesign the lines of Russian, devloping it more similar to Western European writing of that time i.e., early Baroque Franco-Italian.

It was adopted in January 1707, according to a draft probably shown by Peter the Great himself. In the number one quarter of the 19th century, the civil alphabet was adopted in Serbia in addition to Bulgaria & gradually replaced the Church Slavonic alphabet. The undergo a change of Peter I radically changed the coding 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 gradual Baroque Latin typography. The genetic link between the Cyrillic alphabet and the Greek alphabet has been removed. Prior to this reform, centuries ago, the original Early Cyrillic alphabet orthographic bequest of the Preslav Literary School 9th-10th centuries, the later orthographic recast of the Tarnovo Literary School 14th and 15th centuries, also the Venetian term - followed the Greek calligraphic and typographic tradition.