A Russian ABC: ABV: Featuring Masterpieces from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg

by Florence Cassen Mayers

Forty-two full-color illustrations provide a fascinating initiation into the Cyrillic alphabet, or azbuka, the basis of the Russian language. From Ambar to Yakbta, the 33-letter azbuka unfolds through... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810919192
• ISBN13: 9780810919198
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 14.0"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Simple & Beautiful

Using wonderful art this book introduces the Russian alphabet in an easy to understand manner. Perfect for those of us who always wondered what those weird Russian symbols were. The book gives the Cyrillic spelling, the Roman spelling, and the English translation. For example, Beep = Veyer = Fan.