On 17 May 2024, an employee of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve Galimullina N. R. for 11 children of Bolgar Children’s School of Arts held an event on “Slavic Cyrillic” dedicated to the Day of Slavic Script and Culture.
This holiday in all Slavic countries is celebrated annually on 24 May. The name of the written language, by the way, comes from the name of the Christian saint Cyril (Constantine) who, according to legend, together with his brother Methodius reworked the Greek alphabet and Old Russian runic writing and created the Slavonic alphabet on this basis.
During the event, children learnt about the holiday, about the history of writing – a great invention of humankind, which allowed people to preserve knowledge, otherwise it would have been forgotten. The children noticed that each letter of the Cyrillic alphabet has its own name. If we read these names in the order of the alphabet, we get “the message of our ancestors to us, now living”, as some scientists believe. At the end of the event, the children watched a presentation and saw the differences between Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters, and traced the evolution of Cyrillic writing.

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