Monuments to Cyril Who Created Cyrillic Used in Russia and other countries

Where is Cyrillic used?






Who was Cyril?
Cyril and Methodius were Orthodox Christian priests.
They devised the alphabet based on Greek. Peter the Great of Russia introduced the Reversed r, familar to us from the logo of Toys r us.


Earlier Logo





Later Logo




Was Cyril the older or younger brother?

Monuments to Cyril and Methodius and Cyrillic

1 Bulgaria
Statue of Cyril and Methodius outside the library named after them in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.

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English

The Monument to the Cyrillic Script erected under a joint Bulgarian-Mongolian project at the Bulgarian base in Antarctica on 3 March 2018

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Description	Български: The Monument to the Cyrillic Script erected under a joint Bulgarian-Mongolian project at the Bulgarian base in Antarctica on 3 March 2018
Date	20 March 2019, 16:28:10
Source	Own work
Author	Inoceramid bivalves

Now, where would you expect to find monuments to Cyril and Methodius?
Russia
Bulgaria
Greece


Where can I learn Cyrillic?

Russia

Bulgaria

Useful Websides
Duolingo

Post being written. See also previous posts on Cyrillic, Bulgarian, Bulgaria.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, blogger, author, speaker, teacher of English and other languages.