Russian influence on the Bulgarian language dates back to the 18th century after the
reforms of Peter the Great and the declaration of Russia as an
empire
An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outpost (military), outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a hegemony, dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the ...
(October 22, 1721). The beginning is marked by the translation of the "
Kingdom of the Slavs" into Russian.
To begin with, a teacher in
Voivodina, where many Bulgarians live, was sent
Maxim Suvorov with many
alphabet book in
Civil Script
Russian orthography has been reformed officially and unofficially by changing the Russian alphabet over the course of the history of the Russian language. Several important reforms happened in the 18th–20th centuries.
Early changes
Old East ...
.
Catherine the Great
Catherine II. (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 172917 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter I ...
sponsors the printing business in
Venice
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of
Dimitri Theodosius.
Russian influence follows the first and second Bulgarian literary and cultural influences on the Russian language, literature and culture, which date back to the
golden Age of medieval Bulgarian culture and the
Tarnovo Literary School.
Russian influence is expressed in the construction of secular education, the introduction of new scientific, political and cultural terminology, mainly after the
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
.
References
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Language contact
History of the Bulgarian language
History of the Russian language
Bulgaria–Russia relations