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Published by The Moscow Times, May 21, 2004

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By Igor Tabakov

This Monday, the Slavic world marks the birth of its written language. Celebrated in several Orthodox countries since 1349, the holiday was introduced to Russia in 1992 with the unveiling of this monument by Vyacheslav Klykov to Saints Cyril and Methodius on Moscow's Slavyanskaya Ploshchad. Brothers and monks from ninth-century Thessalonika, Cyril and Methodius became the "apostles of the Slavs," inventing the alphabet that became the basis for Cyrillic script and giving the Slavs their first manuscripts and literary language. Photograph by Igor Tabakov.

 

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