Day of Slavonic Script. How was the thing?
The Day of Slavonic Script and Culture, a holiday dedicated to the Memorial Day of Saint Cyril and Methodius, was celebrated at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy on Sunday, May, 20. On this day, a calligrapher, Ph.D. Andrei Sannikov told the visitors to the Museum about ten centuries of Slavonic script’s history.
The visitors learned why our ancestors had two alphabets — Cyrillic and Glagolitic, why the alphabet had 10 more letters a thousand years ago, how the first books written by the Slavonic Script looked like and how they were written. In addition, Andrei Sannikov held a workshop and told about Old Russian uncial Cyrillic book hand, Old Russian half-uncial Cyrillic book hand, Russian Cyrillic cursive handwriting, Russian Cyrillic ornate lettering. Guests to the museum discussed if Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin was a good calligrapher and whether ball and gel pens are good or not.
Day of Slavonic Script at the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy
