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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 448106, member: 33&quot;]To me the script could come from any time period. The Old Style dates could be from any time before 1918 when the Gregorian Calendar was finally adopted in Russia after the Revolution. That also applies to the letter at the end of Olenin&#039;s last name. That letter still exists but its use in that sort of position is not so common these days. According to a Wikipedia article about the Russian alphabet, &quot;Ъ used to be a very common letter in the Russian alphabet. This is because before the 1918 reform, any word ending with a non-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatalization_(phonetics)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatalization_(phonetics)" rel="nofollow">palatalized</a> consonant was written with a final Ъ - e.g., pre-1918 вотъ vs. post-reform вот. The reform eliminated the use of Ъ in this context, leaving it the least common letter in the Russian alphabet. For more information, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet#Non-vocalized_letters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet#Non-vocalized_letters" rel="nofollow">Non-vocalized letters</a>.&quot; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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