The famous Slavic educator, authorChurch alphabet in the Old Slavonic language, the ancestor of literary speech, Rev. Kirill (worldly name Konstantin) was born in Macedonia. Together with his brother Methodius, he made an invaluable contribution to the development of the Slavic language. This is a person who was obliged to become canonized after his death. Thanks to her, we own such an amazing, melodious and poetic speech, our language is incomparable in terms of harmoniousness with any other language in the world.
Vision and extraordinary mind
Slavic educator originally from Byzantium.Konstantin (Cyril) was born in 827 in modern Thessaloniki, and earlier the city of Soluni. His father was a prominent man who held the high position of assistant military chief in Thessalonica.
There are written references to the fact thatConstantine once had a vision. Sophia appeared to him with a luminous face. The parents of the guy looked at the ghostly woman, the wise Sophia. They interpreted this incident as a momentous event and were very happy about it.
Young Constantine (Slavic educator, bornfrom Byzantium) was immediately sent to school. Here, the teachers were able to detect an extraordinary talent in the boy: his sharp mind, memory, and unusual thinking. The most favorite pastime for Constantine was reading books.
Высшее образование Константин получил в Царыграде.Such teachers as Photius, Leo the Philosopher and others played the role of his teachers. The mind of the future creator of the alphabet amazed everyone and everyone. His mind cannot be described in words.
Create ABCs
Slavic educator, author of the first alphabet,Cyril began work on his brainchild on the orders of Emperor Michael. First of all, Konstantin portrayed the same sounds for the Greeks and Slavs. He conveyed them with the help of Greek letters. Those sounds that were not in the Greek language, he tried to convey in such a way that they did not differ from the ready-made letters. When Constantine replaced the signs, they could have a very clumsy look.
The new alphabet consisted of 43 letters.Thanks to them, it was possible to write down words such as, for example, boron, latitude, noise and others. These terms could not be depicted in Greek letters, since in this language there are no letters to convey the following sounds: s, w, u, s, u, b, h, w. For their image in the Slavic language existed their letters.
Fight and death
Slavic peoples in every way tried to banhave your own writing. But Cyril, a Slavic enlightener from Byzantium, led an implacable struggle against this injustice. He courageously performed services in the Church Slavonic language. At this time, in the West, the doctrine prevailed that the Latin peoples were chosen by God, and the Slavic nationality was barbarism. Cyril rejected all this.
The beginning of the year 869 brought Cyril (a Slavonic enlightener originally from Byzantium) a terrible disease, from which he died on February 14 of that year. The sage was gone at the age of 42 years.
