Russia Handwriting

See the Reading Handwritten Records Series of free online classes available at familysearch.org. This series includes interactive lessons about Russian handwriting.

Russian Cyrillic block letters are show in the Germans from Russia "Language and Languages" section.

For examples of Cyrillic italic font. Dramatically different letters are highlighted in yellow.

For examples of Cyrillic cursive (handwritten script).

Word lists that are general or that address specific topics are good resources to use in reading Russian records:


 * Word list from Doukobor.org. Has the misfortune of not being in Cyrillic
 * Short list of terms in Roman script
 * Online Russian dictionary. Site in Russian
 * Excellent online dictionary from Cornell University