Germans from Russia Handwriting

Many documents about Germans from Russia will be written in old gothic handwriting which is different from the Roman script familiar to most English-speaking genealogists, or in Russian Cyrillic which has an alphabet closer to Greek.

= German Handwriting =

For information about and examples of old German script and type see the "Handwriting" section of the Germany portal.

= Russian Handwriting =

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

Cyrillic italic font is shown here:

For examples of Cyrillic cursive (handwritten script).